Word: defendent
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Earlier this month, Morgan faced the Supreme Court to defend the rights of Howard Levy, a dermatologist and army captain who in 1965 refused to train Green Berets on the grounds that combat troops would abuse medical skills. Morgan has chased the case since then under the banner of the Nuremberg principle--that members of the armed forces may legally disobey orders if following them would constitute war crimes. The Court has not yet ruled on Levy's case...
...ever been so damned mad in my life! After spending the day trying to cope with the truckers' strike, waiting in vain at the gas station, I come home and read your article about an $86 billion expenditure for defense. When will we understand that the willingness to defend our country is in direct proportion to the quality of life at home? We must attend-and fast-to rectifying our problems here, and to hell with defense...
...Supreme Court has added to the board's difficulties by requiring it to set up special English courses for the sizable minority of students who speak only Chinese (TIME, Feb. 4). On another front, attorneys are preparing to defend the city against a $500,000 suit filed on behalf of a boy who claims that he was allowed to graduate from Galileo High School with only fifth-grade reading skills. As a result, he is unqualified for any job "other than the most demeaning, unskilled, low-paid labor...
...Chinese don't see it that way. According to the official program notes, the brass introduction to the final movement (entitled "Defend the Yellow River") should conjure up an image of Chairman Mao's call to arms. A piano solo in the second movement "summarizes the long history of the nation and its people," but if the program didn't say so no one would ever know. Nietzsche, Wagner, George Bernard Shaw and many other critics have all written tracts trying to analyze some piece or another in historical or philosophical terms. All they have shown is that...
Frequently parents and friends do not understand the role reversals. "My son is between jobs," fibs Alyce Onaitis. In fact, Onaitis is so sensitive about his stay-at-home status that he avoids business discussions with other men unless he is "ready to defend myself...