Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force General Benjamin Wiley Chidlaw, test pilot and engineer who directed development of the first U.S. jets, got another pioneer assignment: create the machines and the organization to defend the U.S. against air attack. Four years later, the nation has a Continental Air Defense Command that is on 24-hour duty from the arctic to New Mexico (TIME, Dec. 20). But it no longer has the benefit of its founder's experience. Last week, at the age of 54, General Chidlaw retired with...
...book's U.S. publishers advertise it as having sold 70,000 copies in Germany, although the German publishers more modestly correct that figure to just under 10,000. Lawyer-Author Kramer, now the state's attorney of the city of Hamburg, who used to defend anti-Nazis in court when Hitler was riding high, was usually in trouble with the regime. As a translator in the German army he was busted from captain and shipped off to the Russian front as a machine gunner. Out of that experience he has written an awkward though well-intentioned book...
...most authoritative canons of taste will not defend the dining hall staffs in their war against Bermuda shorts. When worn no longer than twenty-three inches from the waist and no shorter than two inches above a clean kneecap, even Brooks Brothers will advertise shorts in their store windows. Nor is there any justifiable objection from those who dislike bare legs. Socks, when worn properly, are no more than than three inches below the knee. At best--or at worst--depending on one's sartorial Weltanschauung, five inches of flesh is exposed...
...Peking, protesting, claimed that the Sabres had flown over Chinese islands. The U.N. command lodged a counterprotest at Panmunjom: "Again, you are officially warned that if aircraft of our side are attacked, they will defend themselves...
...Kerensky, then 35, skittishly mistaking a few stray shots in the courtyard outside his palace office for the beginning of a counterrevolution, leaps to the windowsill and bellows hoarsely: "Stations everyone! . . . Listen to me-I, Kerensky, am speaking to you, Kerensky is speaking to you! Defend your freedom and the revolution . . . Stations everyone...