Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much a compliment as a disadvantage to him if it were not for a peculiarity of the vice-presidency considered as a political stance. At best, it is a poor political pulpit. With a President whose health is a matter of public speculation, a Vice President who attempts to defend himself seems to be trying to supplant the President. Nixon, therefore, has had little choice but to stay quiet and take it on the chin. By now the chin is so thoroughly bruised by glancing blows that some Republican leaders are saying he would be a poor candidate because...
...November most arguments were threshed out, and the bureau examiners went upstairs to defend their figures before the Director's Review, presided over by Hughes's deputy, Percival Brundage (ex-senior partner of the Price Waterhouse accounting firm). Some half-dozen times Hughes snapped the latest batch of approved budgets into a notebook, and took them to Gettysburg for presidential approval. When the President would give "his O.K., Hughes would write the agency head what is called an "allowance letter," stating the presidential-approved figure. Only six budgetary points went over his head to the President, and these...
...Israel was involved in another crisis, brought on by its own fears for its survival, and the means by which it had chosen to "defend" itself-including the deliberate Israeli Army raid on Syrian outposts near the Sea of Galilee border in which 56 Syrians and six Israelis were killed (TIME, Dec. 19). Before the U.N. Security Council is a Syrian resolution asking sanctions against Israel and its expulsion from the U.N.; the official U.N. mediator has denounced the Israeli raid as disproportionate to the provocation, and Britain, France and the U.S. agreed last week to censure Israel in "strong...
Alone in the house for several hours before the shooting, Shoemake wrote two suicide notes. To his wife he said: "The only thing I have done wrong is to try to build a business. As you know, I have no money to defend myself, and I cannot go on embarrassing you day by day." In another, unaddressed note he said simply: "Call the justice of the peace...
Four years ago, World Figure Skating Champion Dick Button '52, left the University briefly to defend his title in the 1952 Olympics at Oslo...