Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British-controlled Palestine in 1948. Without U.S. aid and contributions from U.S. Jews, it would not have survived. Though there have been differences about tactics and policies, the U.S. Government and people have never wavered in firm support of Israel's right to exist and its ability to defend itself against the hostile Arab countries that surround it. It has been one of the few uncritically accepted constants of U.S. foreign policy in the postwar era?and it has sometimes puzzled foreign leaders. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin put it directly to Lyndon Johnson when he met the President at Glassboro...
Smashing Chinese Faces. Part of the government's dilemma is that it lacks the troops to defend Phnom-Penh and at the same time reopen the Mekong, a critical problem that would not be solved by the receipt of more military-aid funds from the U.S. Cambodian forces around the capital are already spread dangerously thin, the result of the nearly total destruction of a division in that area during this year's fighting. The high command feels it should not risk taking any soldiers away from Phnom-Penh; yet the river must be reopened to convoys...
Mabel's inability to defend herself against the people who wanted to commit her has a lot to do with women's traditional role. Mabel couldn't defend herself because she wasn't sure she had all that much to defend. As she says of her children. "The only thing I ever did in my life that was anything at all was to make you guys." Given the classic female yardstick of achievement she was absolutely right. It's no wonder that her first response to the news of her impending committal was "Tell me what you want...
...Nick and Mabel really love each other and that A Woman Under the Influence is a tragic love story." Perhaps the crux of the movie is the scene where Mabel's husband, Nick, yields to outside pressures and agrees to commit her to a mental institution. Mabel tries to defend herself: "I always understood you and you always understood me--till death do us part, Nick...
...this late stage in the Pepys-watching game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious lecher - a Uriah Heep who could preach sanctimoniously to a fellow tomcat while he himself was goatishly seducing pretty Mrs. Bagwell, the carpenter's wife...