Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Denver then barely held on fror a 7-6 win over Brown, it appeared that the heavily worked Terriers might be hockeyed out. But they shattered Yale's five-game winning streak, 8-3, at New Haven Saturday to serve notice that they are in top shape to defend the trophy they won last year for only the second time in the 14 years of competition...
...challenging duty of leading a generation impatient of the mumblings bumblings and fumblings of what has too often passed for statesmanship." f we do fail to gain admission," Wilson warned, "the fault will not lie at Britain s door. History will condemn beyond any power of ours to defend or excuse, the failure to seize what so many of us can clearly see is now a swirling, urgent tide in man's affairs...
...situation has also produced a new breed of critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned." Small wonder. Past critics were thoroughly cowed and browbeaten, not unjustly, for their classic misjudgments, beginning with the scorn neaped on Manet's Olympia and culminating in the ridicule showered on the impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists. Critics now live in terror of seeming square. The trouble...
...being left in utter solitude and desertion, and the forces of empire would fall into the hands of the wildest and most lawless barbarians." But Christians ceased to be pacifist when the Emperor Constantine turned Christianity from a fringe sect into the Establishment. It now behooved the church to defend the Christian empire, and St. Augustine, faced with the waves of barbarian invasions, built upon the codes of Aristotle, Plato and Cicero the Christian concept of the just war. First, he said, the motive must be just: "Those wars may be defined as just which avenge injuries" or repel aggression...
...there were "heavy demands" on national resources. If his remarks indicate a willingness to see some things cut, there is no question about what the strengthened Republicans will attack. They will leave the war effort intact and rip into domestic programs, and it will take a determined President to defend expensive, controversial social legislation...