Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church's attack on contraception, Noonan says, must be seen in its historic context, as a response to a particular challenge. In the first two centuries of Christian history, church leaders were forced to defend the value of procreation against Manichaeans and Gnostic heretics who saw in the Biblical counsels about virginity a commandment to abstain from sex entirely. Christians also had to defend the sanctity of life against a pagan Rome that accepted both abortion and contraception as a way of life...
There was always something in him that could rouse the noisier Republicans to fits of righteous indignation. In the end, too, some of the liberals who had followed him for so long began to revile him. How, they asked, could he stay in the United Nations and defend policies in Angola, in Cuba, in Vietnam, polices they knew were wrong and that he too must have been dissatisfied with. So they joined the politicians who had long since written him off as a man who could not make up his mind, who agonized over his every decision, wavering...
...Cape Codder, a weekly newspaper published in Orleans, editorialized Thursday that "a clear and present danger" exists on the Cape after recent riots at Newport, Hampton Beach and Laconia. "Given these circumstances," the paper argued, "it seems clear that Cape Cod towns have the right to take action to defend themselves, if not the duty...
Wednesday night's teach-in will apparently have no administration spokesmen. David A. Smith, one of the organisers of the meeting, said that several faculty members who had been asked to defend U.S. policy in the Far East and in the Dominican Republic had declined for various reasons. He noted that several attempts had been made to attract a State Department speaker to defend administration policy in the Caribbean...
...both Courts, of the Lawyers and of Juries, who will spread my Fame thro the Province, will draw around me a Swarm of Clients who will furnish me with a plentiful Provision for my own Support, and for the Increase of my fortune. I shall be able to defend Innocence, to punish Guilt, and to promote Truth and Justice among mankind...