Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support of the Republican. Like many of his classmates Fallows soon was swept up by the anti-war movement. He recalls that he began to doubt the right-wing, pro-war legacy of his upbringing during his freshman year, when Sen Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) journeyed to Boston to defend the American Vietnam policy. "I went and listened to it perfectly confident that he would have reasons to rebut all the criticism of the war, and he didn't. He never really answered any of the questions. That was a real shock...
...answering Frankel's question about whether the Soviets had the better of the U.S. in the grain sales and the 1975 Helsinki agreement, which confirmed the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe. The President easily came up with justification for the grain deals but ran into trouble trying to defend the Helsinki pact. He has clearly demonstrated in the past that he understands the realities of Eastern Europe, and he apparently meant to say, as he did several sentences later, that the U.S. "does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union." Ford even...
...Love Mississippi," Bradford sings of the places that head the roll of racial hatred--Watts and South Boston. Not too many people from Southie could have been there, in the eight and nine dollar seats, to defend their honor. But most of those who did make it to the Charles Playhouse seemed to have no doubts that they'd gotten their money's worth. On the way out, many of them echoed the words of the black man who sat behind me during the performance: "Beautiful," he kept saying. "Beautiful...
...season, when army patrols are more effective, that civilian cars have had to travel in armed convoys on many roads. Road and rail links to South Africa are increasingly threatened. According to one widely accepted rubric about guerrilla warfare, a government needs 10 to 20 soldiers to defend itself against every guerrilla involved in an insurgency; white Rhodesia was in no position to bear such a burden for long...
...Lincoln had many skills, but the New England Journal of Medicine recalls one that contemporary doctors (and their lawyers) may especially appreciate. In 1856, while he was practicing law in the Springfield, Ill., area, the future President was asked by two physician friends to defend them in a malpractice suit brought by an elderly man whom they had treated for a leg fracture. Though the break eventually knitted, the limb was slightly shorter than before. Briefed by the doctors on the difference age makes in the brittleness and healing of bone, Lincoln dramatically demonstrated the point in court with broken...