Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never be determined, given the intricacies of federal budget making-what irks the White House most is the fact that the dispute became public. Though HUD officials deny that they leaked the memo, Carter's aides were incensed. Said one: "The job of a Secretary is to defend positions taken by a President, rather than publish something that will embarrass the President...
...record of his controversial stint as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He launches a rhetorical broadside. It is the same argument he made in the 1975 Commentary article, "The U.S. in Opposition," that vaulted him into the U.N. post; and he is writing here, not just to defend his performance at the U.N., but to reassert the principles upon which it was based. His appeal, then and now, is for a tough-minded confrontation--sleeves up, American style--between American liberalism, a force Moynihan sees as more and more timid, and the principles of "totalitarianism," in whatever forms, ideas...
...members of Iran's armed forces recite a pledge of allegiance to Xoda, Shah, Mihan (Persian for God, Shah and Fatherland). Significantly, in this tripartite loyalty oath, King comes before country. Iran's army, navy and increasingly sophisticated air force have two missions. One is to defend a nation ringed by potential enemies. The other is to protect the person, prestige and power of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who once observed, "In this country, if the King is not the commander in chief of the armed forces, anything can happen...
Single-interest groups are needed because particular dams, freeways and threats to civil liberties have particular victims who do better by organizing a particular response. Without the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, the nonEstablishment majority would have no one to defend them against the single-issue groups in and around the Government...
...Christina not write her book when her mother was alive to defend herself? "The story was not yet finished," she replies, somewhat disingenuously. "I had no idea how it would end." Many of Joan's friends, some of whom confirm the basic facts of Christina's grim tale, are nonetheless sorry that it ended this way. "I cried when I read the book," says one of them, Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass. "But I really cried for Joan. There is an absolute nausea among her friends in learning these things...