Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pampanga Governor José B. Lingad tried to defend the government, accused David of having once plotted to assassinate President Quirino. In the course of his attack, Lingad dropped an embarrassing admission. "The Huk dissidents," he said, "have been gaining ground. We are being pushed back to where we were in early 1947." This admission disgusted even Quirino's own men. Senate Majority Leader Tomas S. Cabili denounced the government's policies for dealing with the Huks as "utter bankruptcy." "This confession of failure," he added, "has to be made even if it scares the wits off American...
...week, it was all Judge Jackson could do to defend himself and his mission. He plaintively insisted that 1) he would not pry into any individual's misbehavior; 2) he was against federal censorship of the movies; 3) he had warned Senator Johnson that he would have to keep in confidence anything he had learned during his past service in Hollywood. All he wanted, he pleaded, was to help the industry to cure itself of a weakness for commercial exploitation of its stars' private sins. Also, he favored a "constructive" approach to immorality, e.g., turning social workers loose...
...Crimson will defend the Compton Cup against M.I.T., Rutgers, and the host college on Lake Carnegie...
...anything besides military effort ever rouse either experts or public to "pitch in and help?" If nothing else will, perhaps we have already lost what Professor Seitz says we must defend-the confident Renaissance faith in man's freedom to make and execute new, creative plans...
...crucial as any in U.S. history. Politics came first. The primary consideration was not so much passing bills as creating issues which could be presented persuasively to the folks back home. The strategy of the Republicans was to blame and reproach. The strategy of Democrats was to explain, defend and duck-or to demand laws they couldn't get and blame the Republicans for not getting them...