Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic idea of the game is for the batsmen to defend their wickets. They use special bats with a long, flat, four-inch wide blade. The wicket, a device peculiar to cricket, is a lineal descendant of the ancient cottage wicket gate. In present form it consists of three thin poles or "stumps" spaced exactly three inches apart, with two little wood cylinders, or "bails" mounted...
...Truman stood up under successive blows. When cornered by disaster, as in the European crisis or the Red attack on South Korea, he reacted out of deeply rooted American principles. The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the decision to defend South Korea are examples of the healthy Truman reflex. If any problem was close enough, desperate enough and clear enough, he knew what to do. He did not possess and he did not develop the ability to look ahead, to avoid the crises, to build...
Wrestling captain Johnny Lee lost out in his bid to defend his National A.A.U. 123 pound championship over the weekend at Cornell, and placed third...
...long, hard effort against the Dragon of Deweyism, Huckster Adler deserves the fur-lined spittoon. But before he sallies forth again, he should straighten out his armor. His recent encyclopedist tendency, his readiness to defend either side of a contradiction (made out to be a virtue in your article), his over-all intellectual hedgehopping show the same irreverence and inconclusiveness that make the philosophies of William James and John Dewey what they are: anti-wisdoms. Mr. Adler may have provided his own criteria for what he chooses to call "Great Ideas," but he has yet to discover a criterion...
...Struik meeting of planned to cocincide with the trial of the M.I.T. ex-professor. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, will defend Struik, while an as yet unnamed member of the State Legislature will speak against him. Alber S. Collidge, lecturer in Chemistry, will take a middle-road position...