Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each faction has had its own interests to defend. Rockefeller, facing a rough third-term campaign, cast himself disingenuously in the role of "honest broker," infuriating Lindsay by his lack of direct support. Lindsay's reformist zeal, in turn, only alienated upstate legislators, who instinctively recoiled from the prospect of taxing commuters in order, as they saw it, to finance the city's sacrosanct, heavily subsidized 150 transit fare. The wrangling forced two extensions in the city's deadline for enacting its 1966-67 budget; the second expired last week...
...level, there may be a distaste for "getting involved," and the story of people standing by passively while someone is being beaten up has become almost a newspaper cliche. But for every such incident, there are a series of uncelebrated acts of bravery performed to help others or to defend the right. Psychiatrists are apt to point out that such spontaneous heroes may be motivated only by suppressed anxiety or a desire for violent action. The soldier who flings himself on a grenade is simply reacting to a "subconscious impulse toward self-destruction" or because "identification with the group supersedes...
Richard M. Nixon, in Cambridge to hire Law students, says that "the Vietnam war is going better for the United States." John Kenneth Galbraith, H. Stuart Hughes, and Mark DeWolfe Howe defend students' right to protest, and there are an antiwar rally in the Yard and an antiwar march to the Boston Common. Graduate students and undergraduates who were 2-S are reclassified...
...expensive affair while it lasted. Britain alone spent $1.7 billion and was forced to send 50,000 troops and 70 warships to defend her former colony from the incursions of Sukarno, and the war all but wrecked Indonesia's stagnant economy...
...areas of Russia's eastern provinces, including Khabarovsk, were unjustly seized by the Czars from China in the 19th century and now should be returned to the rightful owner. Not a chance, was Podgorny's defiant reply. He pledged the full support of the Soviet military to defend the area and called on workers and farmers to cooperate with the armed forces "to guard and, if necessary, to fight for the Far Eastern areas of our motherland...