Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone among the Grand Duchy's 316,000 citizens shared Bech's territorial ambitions. Two years ago the Minister of Justice himself assured a group of foreign correspondents that if anyone tried to force as much as one foot of land upon it, Luxembourg would defend its territorial integrity to the last man. The government never did get around to passing a law making citizens of Luxembourg of the three German families who live in the Kammerwald. Thereupon, according to international agreement, Kammerwald had never officially been a part of Luxembourg at all. Last week, winding...
Repeatedly during the 20-minute, standing-up conversation, Warren held clenched fists before him, handcuffed-style, said: "Look, I'm handcuffed, really handcuffed." As Chief Justice, he explained, he could not hold news conferences to refute "lying" stories, was powerless to defend himself. "Have you read the book?" asked Mazo. When Warren admitted that he had only read excerpts in Look magazine and some book reviews, it was Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full...
Castro ambassador's statement in London, the Dominican envoy there agreed that it was "most logical" for a country to build a force to defend its shores...
...just an occasional mild symptom-to the usually vicious barrage of Lenny Bruce. Where Elaine and Mike meditate on the problem of a stranded motorist who has lost his last dime, or a boss quietly trying to drink a secretary into submission. Newcomer Bruce, 33, likes to defend Leopold and Loeb: ''Bobby Franks was snotty...
...radio stations, was everywhere interviewed by Russian newsmen. Jotting it all down in separate notebooks, Harriman and Thayer spent long hours each evening disputing their impressions. When at last an article was ripe, Thayer would retire to hammer out a first draft behind a locked door, later return to defend it in heated argument over whether "entered a door" should be "went through a door," whether the Angara River was "blocked," "breached" or "dammed." Finally, he would dictate the approved version over a fading phone line to Moscow, for transmission to N.A.N.A. newspaper clients...