Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist-produced film, entitled "Homeland, We Defend You," illustrates the methods the Reds use to indoctrinate East German youth. The other film deals with the 1953 uprising and the refugee problem that faces West Berlin...
...Britain's get-tough policy on Cyprus began abruptly last March within a week after the unceremonious ouster of Britain's Glubb Pasha from Jordan. Sir Anthony Eden and his imperial advisers decided to consolidate their hold on Cyprus at all costs, to defend their threatened position in the Middle East oil zone. This ugly situation jeopardizes NATO, which seeks new tasks for itself; yet NATO has sought to avoid trouble by ignoring it. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak has proposed that NATO step in to supervise Cyprus' future self-determination...
...order gave Geary one week to defend his ruling, and the judge coolly ran the trial on a brisk timetable assuring its completion before newsmen could possibly get in. On the trial's second day, when seven reporters defiantly barged in, he ordered them right out, but avoided the possible delay of charging them with contempt. Why had he banned the press? Because, said Judge Geary, Mrs. Black was preparing to describe how her husband had forced her to commit perverse acts, and public knowledge of the case would "embarrass not only the defendant but the four women...
Full Safe. There was no doubt that the money pinch was real. Chicago's big commercial banks were slow to take on new borrowers, were only lending to prime risks. At a Pennsylvania Bankers Association meeting, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. felt called upon to defend his policy. FRB, said Martin, has "always met business's seasonal needs and will keep on doing so." And needs were being met: even at high interest rates, commercial bank loans in Manhattan alone rose $122 million for the week, nearly five times the increase for the comparable period of last...
...will be more palatable to the recipients of the aid. It contributes to that spirit of willing cooperation and mutual self-help between non-Soviet nations which is vital to free-world cohesion. In its new role NATO would accent multilateral, inter-regional economic assistance rather than attempt to defend absolutely the indefensible land mass of Western Europe. This should go far to better political and economic relations between the NATO states and other non-Soviet nations...