Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unions defend the pay-rules system on the ground that it is good for the railroads. Says G. E. Leighty, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Association and a member of the presidential panel that reported this week: "The truth is that the railroads, since they pay their train-service employees no Sunday or holiday pay, night differentials, away-from-home expenses or other premium payments . . . actually save under present work rules among their operating workers...
Pursuit of the truth in an atmosphere of freedom is the business of a university. This is an elementary point; it should not be necessary to defend it, especially on the pages of a publication under the auspices of Harvard University. The freedom to hear and discuss all point of view has so long been part of the air we breathe at Harvard that it comes as a profound shock to find that the Summer School does not uphold that freedom...
...family moved from Germany to Austria, where she spent most of her childhood. As a girl, she supposedly belonged to a Hitlerite youth group. In school in Italy during her late teens, at a time when three of her brothers served in the Wehrmacht, she was heard to defend Nazi Germany. That is about the only fact her critics can cite to support their case. After marrying Paul in 1938, Frederika fled Greece under Nazi bombardment, lived in exile in Egypt and South Africa until...
...without warning a horrible fear of my own existence. There arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, looking absolutely nonhuman. That shape am I, I felt, potentially. Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him. I became a mass of quivering fear. I remember wondering how other people could live, how I myself had ever lived, so unconscious of that pit of insecurity beneath the surface...
...frank about this," he said, his voice sharp-edged. "There are rumors in the cloakrooms all over Capitol Hill that the Administration and the [congressional] leaders have made a deal to scuttle public accommodations." Bobby flared. "I don't think the President or I have to defend our good faith to you or anyone else...