Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hetherington of the Divinity School will defend his University squash championship against Dick Hoehn, a third-year law student and former Dartmouth great...
...army, holding a press conference. Alex Quaison-Sackey, Nkrumah's trusted Foreign Minister and former president of the U.N. General Assembly, had deserted his master and flown home "to submit myself to the new government."The Redeemer, he said, "was a lost cause. I was not going to defend lost causes...
...Defending the Pound. In office, Wilson has proved to be a man of the middle-and that is where the votes are in today's affluent Britain. To be sure, Wilson's government has raised pensions, liberalized the national health-insurance scheme, and instituted long-range national economic planning. But the steel industry has not been nationalized. He has kicked the unions far harder than any Conservative would have dared, castigating Britain's raise-happy workers for "sheer damn laziness." And he has dared to defend the pound with the simple old-fashioned remedy of deflating demand...
Cassius Clay will defend his title in Toronto, March 29; but it will probably be against George Chuvalo instead of Ernie Terrell...
During the interviews I was struck by the high degree of intelligence and lucidity with which most students answered my questions. It reflected a tendency among most of them to think and talk a great deal about taking drugs, and unconsciously construct arguments to defend their habit against the legal and social bans imposed by society. Obtaining drugs is a positive act which goes against the inertia of legal constraints--to ignore the restrictions requires some internal debate. Having decided that drugs were worth it, the students interviewed took particular pains to describe drug-induced sensations which defy verbal cliches...