Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...connection with a Soviet citizen. But First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev used it scornfully last week to describe the action of "Comrade Maximov," chairman of the Zhdanov Coke-Chemical works, who had built an 8½-ft.-high slag-block wall 3,000 ft. long (cost: $50,000) to "defend his sovereignty" against the rival Azvostal factory. Although Russia's vast socialized industry works for one boss-the State-competition between ministries, divisions and plant managements is as intense and as predatory as anything to be found in the worst Marxist fantasies of the capitalist world...
...free and innocent passage," backing that right by force if necessary. John Foster Dulles, asked why he kept emphasizing a ship of U.S. registry, explained: "I do not think that the U.S., in the absence at least of a treaty or congressional action, has authority to use force to defend the rights of ships of another registry." Now the U.S. seemed quietly content to let precedent and usage do the job without fanfare. Happily, whoever wished to dispute that right had to make the first move-either by firing at the passing ships, stopping them, or bringing the case...
...awarded him in absentia in 1953, for he had been unable to pick it up in person. The chief reason: for three years, until last October, Wyszynski was a prisoner of the Communists. A cardinal's hat is red to symbolize its wearer's willingness to defend the faith "even unto the shedding of his blood.'' But Wyszynski's greatness lies in his prevention of bloodshed...
This morning, the varsity, represented by Junta, Sears, Gottlieb, and Mills will defend its New England Intercollegiate Championships at Trinity College. Last year, Junta won the individual crown, and Harvard took the team title...
...President himself seized on a White House meeting with the League of Women Voters to lecture on the need for foreign aid (see below). At week's end Ike was preparing a TV speech to the nation to defend his budget. But would the speech be delivered too late to rally popular support for the budget? The new penny-pinching Democrats hoped so, because they were delighted to see the Republicans split on the issue of economy. Favorite Democratic cloakroom joke of the week: "If Ike does go on TV to defend his budget, the Republican Party should demand...