Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last July for immediate elections, which he would almost certainly have won, thereby acquiring vastly enlarged powers. The officers rebuffed him, fearing that he was attempting to take over the revolution for himself. Lately, Spínola had begun making appeals to the "silent majority" to "awaken and defend itself actively against extremist totalitarianism." The appeal appeared to be a veiled warning against Portugal's well-organized Communist Party...
...press should defend the right of privacy, he said, and "if I at all jeopardized the credibility of newspapers in doing that, then I'm sorry about...
...with them on the same regular basis as the kids do. The prairie programs offer young viewers an irresistible opportunity to make secret, invidious comparisons between the fantasy figures on the television screen and those sulky representatives of the reality principle, their parents. The old folks, in turn, must defend themselves against the saintly phantoms of a lifestyle that never was while counting the minutes to bedtime...
...These yachts carried members of the various syndicates which had backed not only the two twelves racing that day, but also such vanquished boats as Baron Bic's French challenger, eliminated by the Cross, and the various American hopefuls--all beaten out by the Courageous for the chance to defend the Grand Auld Mug, as it is sometimes unfortunately known...
...destroy large parts of Indochina, and who are now supplying the wherewithal for the destruction of much of the rest. Apart from their right to live in peace in their own country, the country needs the exiles--to help stop these men, the Kissingers and Fords, who continue to defend subversion of a people's government in Chile and implore Congress for more money to attack a people's government in Vietnam...