Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burdened with 2,000. When Sadat decreed an end to censorship of newspapers soon after he became President, he was not lauded as a liberalizer-far from it. A delegation of censors trooped before the publisher of Cairo's leading newspaper, al Ahram, and complained: "You pretend to defend the common people, but here you are trying to deprive us of our jobs." Inflation is currently running at a 20% annual rate, which forced Sadat to give a 30% cost of living bonus to low-salaried state employees...
...presidency. By drawing the line against aggression in the Mayaguez incident, he put potential adversaries on notice that despite recent setbacks in Indochina and the Middle East, the U.S. would not allow itself to be intimidated. That action reassured some discouraged and mistrustful allies that the U.S. intends to defend vigorously its overseas interests. But the events of the week also raised a series of questions that are bound to be debated in the U.S. and in foreign capitals for months to come...
...king's enlightened path is always blocked by problems. One of them is a movable castle full of French knights who defend their ramparts by shouting down intolerable sexual insults and pelting would-be attackers with a hail of dead farm animals-most unchivalrous. Another obstacle is a Black Knight of uncompromising combativeness; after Arthur has severed all four of his limbs, the knight perversely insists on trying to bite the king on the ankle. Then there are the guardians of a sacred forest who demand a tribute of shrubbery -something with "a nice layered effect"-before allowing Arthur...
Numerous writers used the amassed research to describe not only the politics of independence in Philadelphia and General Washington's preparations to defend New York, but also a series of strangely familiar stories. Inflation was ravaging the Colonies (beef was up 114% in three months), and in distant Viet Nam, a civil war was raging (rebels captured the settlement of Ta Ngon, or Saigon, in the spring of 1776). The research also unearthed some fascinating minutiae: there was only one working toilet in the Colonies - property of a former Royal Governor of Maryland; the na scent sport of golf...
...suppose anyone would dispute the claim that The Towering Inferno is popular art, so I'll defend my assertion that it's good art as well. One red herring--the director. Irwin Allen--needs to be disposed of right away. Auteurist orthodoxy is so much a part of the serious movie-goer's mental baggage that the idea of a good film being produced by an awful director seems a contradiction in terms. And Allen has compounded the problem by acting like some Cahiers du Cinema reader's idea of a Big Bad Hollywood Producer. Allen told the august Arts...