Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very rough approximations of what is needed. Truman's long feud with Congress is rubbed raw by the President's open assumption that his estimates are exactly right and any others wrong. A humbler man would have outlined the problem, given his figure, stood ready to defend it in detail-and avoided tactless, advance insistence that every dollar he asked was essential...
...meeting about the governmental crisis in France. Inside, Acheson had just assured everybody that France would take care of her problems and do her part. Reporters asked Connally for a statement and his toes twinged. "France," he snapped, "must be told that she cannot rely upon the U.S. to defend her and to hand out large sums of money to aid her from an economic standpoint. France must do her duty. That...
...book merchant in the Square or in Boston indicated yesterday that he intended to start selling "U.S.A. Confidential" this morning, despite Post's statement that Crown would defend them against legal action "if anything happens." Official release date is today, although most stores in the area had been selling advance copies before Commissioner Murphy's "advice" last Thursday...
Europe, despite years of effort and the expenditure of billions of U.S. dollars, is still not defensible. France, drained by Indo-China, is in grave economic crisis. West Germany is still unarmed, still unable to defend itself against a Russian advance that might make a Communist military spearhead out of German men and industry...
Hershey will defend these charges, and the inevitable accusation that UMT means military control of the country during peacetime...