Word: defender
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...continues to have fun with boxing, she is also preparing to defend her recent victory in a fight at Boston Arena March 27. Her legacy and talent will perhaps motivate even more females to break one of the stingiest remaining gender barriers and take up boxing...
While it looked as though he went after Blumenthal to defend the honor of the independent counsel's colleagues, there was actually a prosecutorial purpose as well, the shrewder minds at the White House quickly realized. "We don't think it's because Ken Starr is so thin-skinned he can't take a little criticism," said press secretary Mike McCurry. "This is an exercise about something else." The maligning of his staff looked to Starr like the work of professionals. In that light, the dirt digging provided him with an opportunity: Blumenthal and private investigator Terry Lenzner, also subpoenaed...
...proof of her love, Shah went so far as to defend Harvard men against the claim that they are unattractive, exclaiming, "Javi's not ugly--but he's taken...
...jail. Of course you hate the media for the way they've dissected you. Your hometown paper, the L.A. Times, had 26 reporters on a single story about you, interviewing baby sitters and kindergarten classmates. So-called friends have sold you out for cash, and real ones won't defend you because they're worried about their own little secrets coming out. You're mad at all of them. Who wouldn't be? Apart from Ginsburg and your family, in fact, there's only one person in this entire mess you don't despise--the Big Creep...
...with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs destroying their city. "I cannot change it," says a 65-year-old backgammon player as his friends nod agreement, "so I do not worry. I will just defend myself and my country as I can." Americans, he says, "should not do this, because if they do, the world will turn against them." An unemployed engineer says there is no point in preparing for the worst. "What would we do now?" he asks. "If it comes, we will survive again...