Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wayne-Morse law. Last week all Oregon learned what the Senator's neighbors in Eugene have known for two months: that fiery Democratic (and ex-Republican) Liberal Morse had fired a part-time gardener, horse handler and 25-year friend because the 65-year-old handyman dared defend Dwight Eisenhower to Morse's face...
...except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit ... to prefer American cars, for any reason, to European; to believe that there may be any justice in the official position on Oppenheimer; to defend Western diplomacy on my basis; to invite company to dinner without candles on the table and without chamber music in the background; to criticize Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams as playwrights or otherwise ... to like Tschaikovsky or Irving Berlin, or to dislike Leonard Bernstein or Mozart; to express admiration...
Money Stays. The Berlin that both Adenauer and his Opposition want to defend is not resting on the six months' stay of political execution that Khrushchev so grandly conceded. Hardly 1% of its bank deposits have fled to safer havens in the West since the crisis began; only a few factory orders have been canceled. Buildings still mushroom, factories still hum, refugees still pour in, as many as 2,000 a week, from Communist Germany...
Apart from the Eden Plan, no one has yet suggested a disengagement proposal that would not gravely endanger the military security of the Western nations. Communist Rapacki's projected nuclear freeze would seriously weaken NATO's ability to defend itself against Russia's vastly larger conventional forces, and would constitute a major victory for Moscow. Any plan that entails German withdrawal from NATO would probably lead to complete U.S. military withdrawal from Europe, since no Western European country save West Germany can be expected to play host to more than 175,000 U.S. soldiers...
Next he made fat offers to Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson, the two players on whom Australia is depending to defend the Davis Cup. All the while he kept up a drumfire of criticism against the embattled L.T.A.A., many of whose members argued bitterly that Kramer should resign from the U.S. team if he was going to spend his time recruiting the Aussie Cup defenders. Complained one official: "Kramer's a member of the U.S. team, and that means we have to invite him to official functions. It's a pretty ticklish situation when you have to play...