Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talbott plucked Charlie Wilson by the sleeve and rumbled: "I don't like what you said at your news conference." Frowning, Wilson began to reply in a quiet voice. Talbott interrupted brusquely: "You haven't done one thing to defend me." Then an aide called them over for pictures; smiling like wooden Indians (or Washington officials), they posed together with Quarles. Later, Talbott denied that he had made his bitter remark to Wilson, but four witnesses said that they had heard...
...staff refuse to give in to the terrorists? Says Editor Mazzella: "I'm fulfilling a human obligation I just can't run away from. I'm attached to Maroc-Presse. It's the only newspaper that's ever given me the means to defend an ideal...
...libel action now pending against Confidential), and exposed her to "disgrace, contempt and ridicule.'' Hollywood Attorney Jerry Giesler, who filed the suit, said his client was not interested in a monetary settlement, would turn over any court award to charity. Her real purpose, said he, was "to defend her good name against the ugly, unfounded and scurrilous attack, ... to discourage this magazine and others of its ilk from making similar unfounded attacks on innocent people." Giesler followed up with a $3,000,500 suit in behalf of Negro Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. against Hush-Hush magazine. The suit...
...Bargain. But many businessmen predicted a stable price level-or even a drop in some prices. Ben Moreell, chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., last week called a press conference to 1 ) defend the steel price increase, and 2) argue that it would not necessarily lead to a general increase. Since early 1951, steel prices have gone up 23% but the general price index has declined 5.6%, partly be cause of lower food costs and partly be cause of improved manufacturing meth ods which cut retail price tags. Said Moreell: "We have had a stable price level for the past...
...disillusionment was at hand. His friend Gide came back from Russia declaring: "Russia is not what we thought." After the Soviet-Nazi pact, Malraux announced bitterly: "What I wanted to defend for 20 years could not be defended by Communism...