Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel that this is the year we'll really have to defend the title," Hadley said. "All the other colleges have improved and they'll be out for us. We have to set our goals for ourselves, and Peter is letting us do that. No, overconfidence is not a big problem...
...true believers. And even sympathetic readers will lose patience with its sloppy style and careless organization. But if we can believe this book, it narrates a tragedy: Allende, blinded by his trust in legality and the integrity of the generals, refuses to depart from constitutional tactics in order to defend his revolution. With hindsight, Rojas points out the fatal errors of disarming the workers and preaching restraint, which together destroyed the only potential check to military insurrection...
Some 20 members of the Committee to Defend Sherman Holcombe picketed the Boston headquarters of Local 26 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks union yesterday while representatives of the University and union met to hear Holcombe's grievances against the University...
...bearing on politics in the West. "One should not consider that the great principles of freedom terminate at one's own frontiers," he said. "No! Freedom is indivisible and one has to take a moral attitude toward it." He declared that the West's failure to defend the freedom of others has led to the "verge of a collapse created by its own hands." For Solzhenitsyn, the guiltiest parties were clearly Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...1920s, when not only classics but such modern books as James Joyce's Ulysses and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover were banned, an anticensorship movement arose to defend frankness in works of art. Ulysses was declared nonpornographic by District Court Judge John Woolsey in 1933. Another major barrier fell when Lady Chatterley's Lover was allowed to circulate in the U.S. in 1959. But the key constitutional case had come two years before in the Roth decision...