Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least, very insulted by your invidious article; not for myself (considering the source) but for my school which you so unjustly vitiated in your effort to show what a courageous, clever, sophisticated, mendacious reporter you were. It contained much unwarranted sareasm (with which only a jilted Harvard man can defend himself). It lacked good taste and was an unfair picture of a fine school. I would not condemn a man for writing an unfavorable criticism against my school if he had a sound basis for it, but I'm sure you do not realize what a sad mistake you have...
...Pauley: "I've never heard such poppycock in my life." As Stassen poured it on, Pauley fidgeted, mopped his face with his handkerchief. The muscles of his jaw twitched angrily. Twice he leaped to his feet, pointed a long, bony finger at Stassen and demanded a "right to" defend himself against the "false charges of that man right there...
...small businessmen, small industrialists and tradespeople-will be thrown into the jaws of international big business. It is you, the little people, who are going to be bled white with-new taxes. . . . The bigger you are the less you pay. . . . But we, the Communist Party, will defend you and stand...
...Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. The institute was abolished. Twenty other top Soviet economists were in disgrace along with Varga; their mistake was that they did not listen to a proverb common among embattled Soviet economists: "It is better to defend the government's figures than to go to jail for your...
...rather confident approach to local and broader matters. All of the readers have not agreed all of the time with what has been written on all subjects, yet from my first recollection of the paper, before we entered World War I, through efforts to maintain international peace and to defend our outspoken professors from outside interference, down more recently to specific advice on how a liberal should cast his national vote, the "policy" has been to admit as much freshness of thought as the Board could develop...