Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after three days without sleep, made his own public reckoning. But it was the plain speaking of a candid and courageous man. Israel had won "with overwhelming strength," he said, adding, his eyes glistening, "I hope people all over the world will recognize the efforts this country made to defend its soil...
...innumerable sources, said the Upjohn Co.'s Dr. E. Myles Glenn, it mobilizes everything at hand-the immune and clotting mechanisms, the blood-forming and lymph systems, the liver, and many others. Sometimes it overreacts to the injury; sometimes it damages the very system it is seeking to defend, as in autoimmune diseases...
Perhaps the most fundamental motif of China's foreign policy has been a concern to secure and defend her borders. When able to attain this end by peaceful and diplomatic means, as in the case of border treaties with Burma and Pakistan, China has done so. But when foreign armies crossed the 38th parallel in Korea and headed for China's Yalu border, Peking ordered its army to stop that threat. And when India refused to allow give-and-take negotiations about a disputed border, the Chinese army took what Peking considered to be her share of the disputed territory...
...much of the Harvard community, the war no longer poses an intellectual problem in American foreign relations. As one former member of the Johnson Administration put it a few days ago, "I haven't found anybody up here in quite a while who will defend the Administration's policy right down the line." This mounting "dovishness" puts partisan Democrats in a tenuous position; the national leader of their party will be in a tight election next year, but should he defeat his Republican opponent, he might interpret his victory as a mandate for his present Vietnam policy...
...costs of war, particularly if the U.S. had to intervene to prevent an Arab victory, would be far greater. And it remains in the national interest of the U.S. to fulfill the commitment which this country made in 1956 to protect free passage in the Gulf and to defend that territorial integrity of all Middle Eastern states...