Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century of its existence as a unilateral doctrine, Great Britain and its fleet successfully defended it. But now that it has been multilateralized and has 20 American republics to defend it, it has become a dead letter...
...letter ignited a campus fire, and even Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, felt called upon to defend his man Lunden...
...boosted its force of military advisers to more than 10,000, and is now spending $1,000,000 daily to beat the Viet Cong. This year the U.S. will help arm some 130,000 members of the Civil Guard and the Self-Defense Corps, and train them both to defend their villages and to make short-range thrusts against the Viet Cong. The regular army will be boosted from seven to nine divisions, with a total force of 200,000 men; U.S.-backed training programs will also double the size of the army's officer and NCO corps...
Behind the bolted doors of a headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires, 150 youths snapped to attention, clicked their heels and gave a Nazi-style straight-arm salute. At a command, three high school boys entered the room. The neophytes chorused an oath, swearing to defend with their lives "the permanent values of Christianity and country." Then they swelled their chests as a blue and white Maltese Cross was pinned to their lapels. Cried the leader of the meeting, Alberto Ezcurra Uriburu, 26: "We must fight with one hand against capitalism and Zionism, and with the other against Communism...
...Dame Edith Sitwell, who, upon turning 75, looked ahead to her official birthday celebration at London's Festival Hall next month. There, she insists, she will appear baroquely bedecked in a red velvet gown, black-and-gold turban and massive gold necklace. She then manned the ramparts to defend her medieval eccentricities. "I think it is a mistake to dress like a mouse," she said. "Except when it comes to bravery, we are a nation of mice. We dress and behave with timid circumspection. Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." The name is the same, and "obviously...