Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deriding as "fabricated legend" the breathless U.S. press reports of last month that Hanoi had offered to begin peace talks in late 1964. The Communists' fanatical belief that they will conquer South Viet Nam found expression in the weirdly convoluted Newspeak used by the North Vietnamese regime to defend its aggression: "The whole world, including the American people, now are stirringly supporting the patriotic struggle of the South Vietnamese people. Why, then, have the people in North Viet Nam not the right to support their kith and kin in the South, who are living in blood and fire because...
...Pastoral Office of Bishops. As a first step, Paul last week announced a major overhaul of the stern, bureaucratic guardian of dogma, the Holy Office. Now known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it must allow anyone charged with "error" the right to defend himself...
...them a deep and usually unconscious conviction of the undesirability of adult maleness, and therefore of adulthood in general. At the most personal and unconscious level, this conviction stems partly from the image of their own fathers as weak, easily defeated and controlled, damaged by and unable to defend themselves against women. And another part of this conviction arises from the subjects' own childhood experiences with 'masculine assertiveness' and the unintended consequences of their competition with their fathers: aggressiveness, competitiveness, initiative, and rivalry--all qualities usually considered desirable among men in our society--had here led to disastrous results. Furthermore...
...their Santo Domingo meeting, the P.R.D. faithful charged that Miolán had falsely accused Bosch of collaborating with Communists to trigger the revolt. Though Miolán was not present to defend himself, they summarily read him out of the ranks. Having him go quietly may not be that simple. Said Miolán: "The P.R.D. is my home. I will go on defending its right to fight, through the vote, to establish a state of law in our country...
...School students will defend the United States position in Vietnam later this month against Oxford opponents in a trans-Atlantic debate via Early Bird satellite...