Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election campaign from Financier Robert Vesco on April 10,1971. That gift was allegedly made in exchange for easing Vesco's way through a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into a $224 million mutual fund fraud. Mitchell and Stans are the first Cabinet officers to defend themselves in court against criminal charges since Warren Harding's Administration...
ACTORS ARE A fragile, bizarre breed. Their eccentricities and insecurities are probably linked to the nature of their livelihood. They grope for recognition and an intangible goal called "the top" only to defend the niche from eager young talents. To attempt the climb one must be hooked--on laughter, on audiences, on applause...
...proposals defend consumers' choice of existing insurance companies, while the Kennedy proposal would eliminated all but 15 federally approved companies...
...high point of the trial is expected to be the testimony of Tony Boyle, who will take the stand in his own defense. He will have to defend himself mightily against the prosecution's prize witness: William J. Turnblazer, 52, former president of the U.M.W. district where the plotting of the murder took place. Turnblazer has signed an affidavit Unking Boyle directly to the case. Promised Sprague: "You are going to hear it right here on this stand from Mr. Turnblazer himself, who will tell you that it was Boyle who gave the order to kill Jock Yablonski...
...right to smoke in public and most non-smokers have never questioned that assumption. No such right exists, just as there is no right to sneeze on other people, an action considered more obnoxious but which is actually no more harmful than blowing smoke on other people. Smokers often defend their right to smoke in public under the banner of freedom of choice. For example, when former HEW Secretary Elliot L. Richardson '41 prohibited smoking in all of the Department's auditoriums and conference rooms, an indignant employee wrote to him protesting that such a restriction "is tantamount to suggesting...