Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East or West really wanted stability in the Middle East. Later, at Amritsar in the Punjab, Scott faced an audience of bearded Sikhs and smooth-jowled Indian businessmen who bombarded him with questions about U.S. foreign policy, morals and politics. And soon afterwards, a Calcutta editor challenged him to defend discrimination in the U.S., demanding: "Would you be comfortable sitting down to dinner with a black Indian-not a brown Indian like myself, but a really black...
...receivers, reaches up in time to knock down a pass. " 'At's the way to go," Devaney shouts. A moment later Kowalczyk is out in the flat, trying to keep an eye on a man gone deep, trying to guard against a hooking end and also defend his overloaded zone. (Fifty yards away, guards and tackles are running through a rugged blocking drill. A pair of blockers smash at one defensive lineman. "Growl at 'em," Duffy cries to Sophomore Tackle Fran O'Brien. Fran growls, is hit by surprise from the side. "What happened?" he grunts...
...most complex factor of integration at the teaching level revolves around the qualifications of the Negro teachers. If Negro teachers are really inferior, no one can defend keeping them in an integrated school. But by breaking the vicious circle (bad schools giving bad educations to pupils who then in turn become bad teachers) at the student level, the first generation of teachers must invariably suffer...
Foreign Policy. Ike's "peace" speech stated "only half the facts." "When [the President] pointed with satisfaction to 'the free nation of Viet Nam' he left out the fact that half of that nation . . . has been lost to the Communists. When he talked of defending Formosa . . . he must have forgotten that . . . President Truman [first] sent the Seventh Fleet to defend Formosa . . . [His] passing reference to Suez gave no hint of the awesome fact that within the past few months, Russia has gained the foothold in the Middle East she has sought for centuries...
Throughout, the subcommittee called on no top school administrators to defend integration, asked none of the testifying teachers to suggest improvements. If the hearings demonstrated anything in their dreary recitation of well-known facts, it was simply that Negroes have suffered educationally and culturally in comparison with whites, and that the gap must be closed before they can compete on equal terms in the schools...