Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, some six years and several world records later. Air Force Lieutenant William Parry O'Brien Jr., a strong and strapping (6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs.) giant of 24, walks into the center of Melbourne's main Olympic stadium to defend with his brawny grace his reign as world's champion shotputter...
...grievences, and solidify in the Russian camp. Geographical proximity, the economic and defensive power of Russia will tie these peoples to the past--not to the alien west. Invasion will only force the peoples of Eastern Europe to realize that their governments speak their language. They will unite to defend the motherland against foreign invasion as they have so often done before...
...week's end Syrian forces in brigade strength moved over the border into eastern Jordan, and Baghdad announced that Iraqi armored elements were also on their way into Jordan. The presumption was that they were there to help Jordan defend itself against an Israeli invasion, although their presence might also give Israel the pretext for invading Jordan. By expanding eastward to the Jordan River, Israel could, at Jordan's expense, straighten out its borders (at one point only seven miles wide). That would leave Jordan with a wide stretch of desert, and not much to live...
...available evidence, we support a policy of intervention and liberation in Hungary. Of primary importance is the fact that the Hungarian revolt has gloriously reaffirmed the spiritual basis of democracy itself, that man essentially hungers for freedom, and that it cannot be denied to him forever. We must defend this principle. Otherwise, democracy and freedom will become empty words. William C. Brady '57 Marc E. Leland '59 Robert E. Ausnit '57 Edward C. Pinkus '59 A. LeRoy Ellison '58 David A. Horgan '56 David G. Taylor '57 James H. Manahan '58 Thomas E. Haskins...
...with facts and makes them move." Some, of course, find fault with him for his hardness, particularly in his control over appointments, but others see a very warm and human man beneath the facade of detatchment required by his post, "a position that requires hard judgements in order to defend the University from mediocrity," according to one Housemaster...