Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pete Carril's Princeton quintet is the odds-on favorite to defend their Ivy League crown. The Tigers were the stingiest team on defense in the nation last year giving up an average of only 51.7 points a game. Carril has four starters back including deadly peripheral shooters Bill Sowinski, guard Bill Omeltchenko, and 6-ft., 8-in. junior center Bob Roma...
...exercise of local editorial autonomy results in political schizophrenia-some papers Republican, others Democratic-which the chains all defend as wholesome diversity rather than cynical moneymaking indifference at headquarters. In the 1976 election, one of Knight-Ridder's Southern papers endorsed Gerald Ford instead of Southerner Jimmy Carter, while the Detroit Free Press in Ford's home state chose Carter. On the Gannett papers-"without any guidance at all from corporate headquarters," says Neuharth-endorsements went about 60% Ford, 40% Carter. The well-managed, publicly owned Gannett papers have been described not too unfairly by a critic...
That last subject brought on an unseemly little squabble between the Kremlin and Santiago Carrillo, 62, leader of the Spanish Communist Party. Carrillo complained that he had been barred, at the last minute, from addressing the gathering. Like Italian Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, Carrillo had planned to defend his party's independence from Moscow. But no sooner had he submitted the speech to the translators, said Carrillo, than the Russians changed their minds and asked him if he would like to deliver it at a factory instead. Carrillo declined...
Objectivity does not come easily, particularly when one is attempting a form of autobiography. The tempation to draw conclusions, to defend one's position, to criticize one's enemies, often proves irresistible...
...better be ready. The World Boxing Council, one of two rival groups that rule boxing--made up of old fighters who were hit in the head too often--has decided that Ali must sign a contract to defend his title against Norton within 60 days or forfeit the crown...