Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holidays and trimmed other fat enjoyed by longshoremen, some 8,000 union members in Buenos Aires went on strike. Ongania sent troops to protect those who wanted to work; soon loading operations were back to normal. Surprisingly, the largest union association, the Confederation General del Trahajo, chose not to defend the dock workers. When the C.G.T.'s new executive committee conferred with Ongania this month, he was in no mood to temporize. "I would like to be popular," he said. "Instead, we have a lot of sacrifices to ask of everybody...
Yale's champ, Ezra Stiles College, will defend the Harkness Trophy, which is awarded each year to the winner of the game...
...Some now defend the fashion on esthetic grounds. "You have this break between your pants and your shoes," explains a Los Angeles display artist. "Two textures. Why ruin it by sticking a third texture in between?" Others now give the trend Havelock Ellis overtones, agreeing, as one Californian puts it, that "hairs on the ankle look provocative." Some girls agree. "It looks sexy," says Rosalie Netter, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "You can see the bone structure, like finely chiseled stone," says Wisconsin Sophomore Karen Knauf...
...When people ask me how I can associate with hoodlums," Williams says, "I reply that a lawyer's duty is not to admire his clients, but simply to defend them...
Though he has defended controversial figures who are publicly distasteful, Williams believes that he succeeded in avoiding any imputation of guilt. "People have come to accept me as representing all sorts of ideologies. Of course it has not always been that way, but after seeing me defend both Communists and right wingers, people can understand that it is not a matter of mutual beliefs between client and advocator," he says...