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Word: defendent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity sailing team will defend its Fowle Trophy championship today and tomorrow when it competes in the 13th annual NEISA Team racing Championship at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. M.I.T., winner of last weekend's Schell Trophy event, is among the seven other colleges entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailing Team to Defend Title In Tournament This Weekend | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

...rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised Jânio in his victory speech: "I will protect and defend the working class and the poor. There will be one weight and one measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Battle of the Broom | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...actor named Al Hodge, who plays Captain Video, was on hand to defend himself. Wearing a business suit instead of a space uniform, firm-jawed Hodge (consistently addressed by the investigators as "Captain") insisted that his program "was meticulous to the point of not even using the word 'kill.' " His Video Rangers use "stun guns" that are not even painful, and captured villains are brainwashed at a "rehabilitation center" rather than dispatched to graveyards. Questioned by Senator Hendrickson about the good taste of tromping on an enemy's hands, Captain Video explained that it would only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Children's Hour | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...court-appointed psychiatrist that the judge was biased and was mixed up with local gamblers himself. Fortnight ago, at his own trial, Huie denied the charge. "You shoveled out a mess of filth and stuff of scandalous nature against a man who was dead and couldn't defend himself," said Judge Adams. When Huie grinned in court, Judge Adams snapped: "Brother, this is no matter to laugh about." He found Huie guilty of contempt, fined him $750 plus an estimated $22 for court costs. When Huie refused to pay the fine, he was clapped into jail. Last week, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Case of Ruby McCollum | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...Republican National Committee sent National Chairman Leonard Hall, Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Joseph Martin, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin and Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen to New Jersey to speak up for Case. Indignantly, old (80) former Governor Walter Edge came charging out of retirement to defend Case against the "party wreckers." Probable net result of the whole Republican anti-Case movement: a noisy backfire, a net gain for Case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: A Political Microcosm | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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