Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, when the 15 prisoners were released on a $1,000 bond each, Henry told them that the guard would not interfere in anything that happened between them and photographers waiting outside the town jail. The released prisoners took the hint. While guardsmen watched, the photographers were left to defend themselves in a free-swinging sidewalk brawl. When the newsmen angrily protested being denied protection on a public street, Henry barked: "I don't have to defend myself to you people...
...coolly taking the measure of another victim, a feebleminded janitor (Henry Jones), who thinks he is teasing the child in blaming her for her classmate's death. Probably the most chilling moment is when Jones discovers -too late-that his joking accusation is true. Before he can properly defend himself, Patty has burned him alive...
...Defend America? One hot morning just 180 years ago, Britain's General Sir William Howe, having taken Brooklyn with "the largest expeditionary force Great Britain had ever assembled" (32,000 men, 200 ships), sent his redcoats across the East River to a landing at Kip's Bay (34th Street). Under the massed fire of 86 naval cannon, the Connecticut farm-boy defenders ran for their lives. General George Washington, taken by surprise, galloped down from his headquarters at the northern end of the island (now Coogan's Bluff, overlooking the Polo Grounds). "Take the wall," he shouted...
...chief political aide, Wing Commander Ali Sabri, flew in from Cairo. He announced that shipowning nations still had rights in Suez−"the same rights as a customer in a shop." Then he went into a long session with India's Krishna Menon, whose eagerness to defend Nasser's anti-Western stand was slightly tempered by awareness that the canal is also his country's road to market. At week's end one Asian delegate asserted that, of the half-dozen Asian representatives he had talked to, all but Menon had expressed "horror" at the idea...
When public officials bar reporters from public hearings and records, editors and publishers are quick to defend freedom of the press. Last week, in New Mexico, it looked as if all publishers do not practice what they preach. For writing a story that offended members of the parole board, Reporter Dan Byrne of Sante Fe's daily New Mexican was ordered excluded from future board meetings. The decision was handed down by Acting Board Chairman Lincoln O'Brien, owner of four New Mexico dailies (but not the New Mexican) and president of the state press association...