Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried each to explain to the other just what our systems meant . . . to the individual, and I was very hard pufe to it when he insisted that their system appealed to the idealistic and we completely to the materialistic, and I had a very tough time trying to defend our position because he said: 'You tell a person he can do as he pleases, he can act as he pleases, he can do anything. Everything that is selfish in man you appeal to him. and we tell him that he must sacrifice for the state...
Reston if he meant to imply that democracy was more difficult to defend than Communism, the President patiently explained: "Look, Mr. Reston, I think you could run into people you have a hard time convincing that the sun is hot and the earth is round . . . Against that kind of belief you run against arguments that almost leave you breathless. You don't know how to meet them...
Last week, when Oregon's Democratic Senator Neuberger flailed the President for "lack of enthusiasm" on the civil rights bill, Minority Leader Knowland jumped up-not to defend Ike but to reply that the U.S. Senate, not the White House, would write the bill. Last week, too, on the international front, the House missed nullifying Ike's status-of-forces agreements only by going into an unusual tie isee below) despite the President's urgent warning that the agreements were "vital...
...made a strong, exemplary case for the processes of justice. This, coupled with the ruling of its highest court upholding the rights of other nations, said more than a thousand guns about the kind of world that Soldier Girard and his fellow G.I.s overseas are on hand to defend...
...told Bulganin, the arms buildup could hardly stop until the legitimate political fears that produced it had been overcome. But the subject of the London talks was not, strictly speaking, disarmament, but the development of a dueling code. Having discovered that neither side could attack the other (or even defend itself) without incurring self-destruction, both were concerned that no sudden moves or impulsive gestures, misunderstood by nervous opponents, should plunge them together into nuclear oblivion. The proposals were not to lay down weapons but rather to sheathe them...