Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depends primarily upon whether he has integrity of character, whether he has a sharp and quick intelligence, and whether he is genuinely devoted to the public service. We believe that out of those three qualities can be made a competent and efficient ambassador worthy to represent and able to defend the interests of the U.S. We believe that Mr. Gluck has all three of those qualities...
...driven to the guillotine in a garbage cart. Minutes later the tumbrel, dripping with blood, carried the body to an unmarked plot of grass, where it was dumped onto the ground, and the severed head of Marie Antoinette placed between the legs. Author Castelot does not deny or defend his Queen's audacity and insolence, nor does he try to cover her multitude of sins. But by the end of his book, it is not the echoes of Marie Antoinette's duplicity and follies that ring in the reader's mind. It is the gruesome howls...
...would be a blessing if the present Supreme Court could be impeached and replaced with American patriots (not politicians) having the character and ability to defend their nation's institutions from the machinations of an ideology that has enslaved so many millions...
With Tenorio, Lott had a stronger case. The army raiders got search warrants in advance and stayed carefully within the law. Other U.D.N. spokesmen were anxious to condemn Lott. But they were reluctant to defend Tenorio until they saw whether ballistic tests on the seized weapons shed any light on the dozens of unsolved murders in Caxias. Nevertheless, Lott's re-emergence as constable of the realm, playing power politics without a by-your-leave from President Kubitschek, stirred uneasy fears of army dominance. Kubitschek, whose declining popularity makes him ever more beholden to Lott, conferred quickly with...
...quiz program as a jazz expert, had said he was going to give some of his winnings to the N.A.A.C.P. Professor Morton B. King Jr., for 20 years chairman of the sociology department, resigned in protest, charging that the university "was no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which is essential for higher education to flourish." Instead of taking King's resignation as a warning that other professors might follow suit, the state house of representatives formally denounced him. urged all state campuses to step up their guard against such "subversive influences...