Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a recommendation by a national advisory council that corporal punishment be abolished in the state primary schools, many British educators stoutly defend the practice as essential to classroom decorum. Of 3,000 delegates at a National Head Teachers Conference this spring, only two voted against caning; only one delegate did so at a national conference of schoolmasters. And a Gallup poll showed that public protesters are still outnumbered by those who favor the cane and strap. When the new school term opens this fall, British buttocks again will burn...
...abroad "don't know what they are talking about." How many times, he asked, can the U.S. intervene all over the world to support friendly governments? "You can't," he answered. "And why should you?" Friendly governments, he said, should be helped to become strong enough to defend themselves. Any unilateral U.S. ban on arms sales, the Shah insisted, would only weaken U.S. influence among its friends and create a vacuum that will be filled by Russia...
...dominate each piece of high ground. A labyrinth of thick-walled tunnels connects the whole. Garages have been dug out for tanks and vehicles; 20-ft.-high earth work barricades protect artillery em placements, and the miles of minefields are dotted with tank traps. The enemy is prepared to defend the heights with two armored brigades, one mechanized infantry brigade, one mobile brigade, 18 battalions of artillery, and six in fantry brigades, each with its own tank battalion - a total of some...
Three years ago, Andrews told the Warren Commission that he had been called by a man named Clay Bertrand the day after the assassination and asked to defend Lee Harvey Oswald; previously, he had told the FBI that he had made the whole story up. Ever since Garrison's inquiry started, the oddball lawyer has bounced in arid out with such a mixture of contradictions and dislocated hip talk that few knew or cared what he was trying to say. Garrison kept track, though. When the D.A. charged Clay Shaw with being Clay Bertrand and part of a conspiracy...
...supposed to be just practice as four U.S. 12-meter yachts squared off in the final America's Cup elimination trials off Newport, R.I. If so, practice makes perfect. After five days of round-robin match racing, Bus Mosbacher's Intrepid was still the prohibitive favorite to defend the Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie next month. Outfitted with a second titanium-tipped mast (to replace the spar that broke twice in earlier races this summer), a new rudder, and new spreaders to stiffen the mast, Intrepid twice beat her own trial horse, Constellation, utterly crushed American...