Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fairbank argued that Taiwan offered the main opportunity for "trying to understand the Chinese world." The help of a strong Taiwan was, Fairbank urged, necessary to "defend ourselves in the idea-logical cold...
...last away game of the year, the varsity soccer team will seek to defend its first place status in the Ivy League against a strong Princeton team today. The contest is scheduled to start...
West Virginia: Republicans, who took over the state government in 1956 for the first time since 1933, have the distinction of trying to defend two Senate seats. Incumbent G.O.P. Senator Chapman ("Chappy") Revercomb, 63, who served one Senate term (1943-48) before he was elected in 1956 to fill out the term of the late Harley Kilgore, is a handsome grandfather, a tireless, bassoon-throated campaigner, a conservative flailing at apathetic Republican voters. His opponent is conservative, too, but fast-moving, breezy Robert C. Byrd, 40, father of two girls (aged 21 and 17), is hard to beat. A former...
Last week the Senate summoned Rojas to appear and defend himself. In answer, Rojas issued a defiant communique: "I cannot recognize this farce, conceived in hate, vengeance and vain haughtiness." As the hour of his appointment with the Senate passed, a few followers in the town house tried to convince Rojas that the glorious days of power would return. "Mi general," shouted one, "the people are with you." Rojas smiled, nodded and hugged himself: "I am enveloped in the constitution...
Certainly a department should defend its autonomy when endangered by administrative officiousness, and it should protect both its teachers and students from abusive restrictions from the outside. But in this case the abuses of graduate study come from within the departments themselves. It is the men who drag on as long as fifteen years in vague pursuit of a Ph.D., stalling, cluttering the files with never-consummated thesis topics, who abuse the admirable leniency of the present system. Yet not everyone can or should manage a thesis in three years and a degree in four. Factors such as the depth...