Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeated it to the Warren Commission: "If anybody really wanted to shoot the President of the U.S., it was not a very difficult job?all one had to do was get a high building some day with a telescopic rifle, and there was nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt." A few minutes later, Kennedy departed for Dallas...
...said that "freedom of speech" might be his topic at the Library Dedication, and that "If anything, I'm going to ask him (Galbraith) to defend my freedom of speech as vigorously as his own." Lee insisted that F.C.C. "harrassment" has caused local television stations to deny him paid T-V air-time...
Goldwater believes that the best deterrent to such a war is a clear and well-understood declaration that the U.S. will, if necessary, defend its vital international interests with nuclear weaponry. In urging this point, he has indulged in some imprecise language...
Some Senate liberals, mostly Democrats but with the backing of a handful of Republicans, were filibustering against the Dirksen rider. When Dirksen tried to invoke cloture, he failed. The filibustering liberals were joined in their nay votes by Southern Democrats who, although for the rider, defend filibusters as a matter of principle. Therefore the cloture motion lost, 63 to 30. The vote plainly did not reflect Senate sentiment about the Dirksen breather, as such, and on a subsequent motion to kill Dirksen's rider for good by tabling it, 49 Senators voted to keep it alive, with 38 against...
...wound up clobbering Eagle by 4 min. 29 sec. Less than two hours later, Commodore Henry Morgan, chairman of the New York Yacht Club Selection Committee, stepped aboard Connie at her moorings. "It is my very happy duty," he said, "to announce that Constellation has been selected to defend the America's Cup in September...