Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shastri's Information and Broadcasting Minister was her first Cabinet appointment, she had for years before been her father's closest confidante. She denies that she hews to any political philosophy, explains: "I don't believe in any ism." Yet she has usually been ready to defend Communist causes on the international level...
...duty to join the plot on Hitler's life, that "principles are only tools in the hand of God, soon to be thrown away as unserviceable." In the vast majority of instances, Fletcher believes, the principle will probably apply. Yet by refusing to acknowledge absolutes, the situationist can defend, for example, the World War II concentration-camp doctor who saved the lives of 3,000 Rumanian Jewish women by secretly performing abortions on them. Had she not done so, they would have been killed simply because they were pregnant. Attacking abortion, the legalist would say that acts are good...
...world's workers against war. The tolling of church bells reminded Jaurès of Schiller's Song of the Bells: "I summon the living, I mourn the dead, I break the furnaces." Cried Jaurès: "I call on the living that they may defend themselves from the monster who appears on the horizon. I weep for the countless dead now rotting in the East. I will break the thunderbolts of war which menace from the skies." Eighteen months later, Jaurès was dead of bullets fired by a youthful assassin who found such pacifism unpatriotic...
Maass and Cooper defend the measure as effective use of the legislative veto, "a new and promising mechanism of legislative oversight." They point out that it is used when the President submits plans for the reorganization of agencies and functions in the executive branch, which do not go into effect until Congress has 60 days to study and perhaps veto them...
...Ashe was accused of assaulting another sailor with a knife in Puerto Rico. Before they were jointly tried by a general court-martial, one of Ashe's two co-defendants told the Navy commander defending them that Ashe had been merely a bystander when the assault occurred. On taking the stand, the same man suddenly switched his story and implicated Ashe. Startled, the commander told the court: "I don't think I can represent them both properly." How could he defend one man without attacking the other? Not moved, the court ordered counsel to continue, and found...