Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally I wish to consider the fine logic that Mr. Nash used to defend the alumni getting half of the tickets. His logic is that they have paid for a major portion of the buildings and athletic facilities so they are entitled to half of the tickets to the games. By his logic we should leave open half of the room space for the alumni as they paid for that, too. I think it's fine to reserve a few tickets for alumni, but only a few. I'm of the old-fashioned belief that the facilities of the University...
...final bout--the House heavyweight championship--Rice (245 lb.) overpowered Ullyot (200 lb.) to successfully defend the title he gained last year without opposition...
Thus, President Kennedy again put Russia's Nikita Khrushchev on the defensive. Every nation acknowledges the right of all nations to take the necessary steps to defend themselves. If, in the nature of modern weapons, there is a special onus attached to preparing a nuclear defense, then the Russians-who cheated upon and broke the three-year moratorium-now had a new opportunity to decide whether the U.S. goes ahead with its tests. A maneuver "strongly resembling blackmail," cried the Russian news agency Tass. The Soviet Union declared that it had no intention of accepting Western proposals...
...more independent. And recently a memorandum approved by top leaders of Germany's Protestant church took a similar line: "The foreign policy of the government appears to us too one-sidedly defensive . . . We expect our Western Allies to assume the risk of a nuclear war in order to defend West Berlin's freedom" and to reunify divided Germany...
...dealing with Moslem nationalists; two years ago, Sartre, Beauvoir and one hundred nineteen other writers, teachers and professional people sent a celebrated letter to de Gaulle. And an expose of actual police torture techniques, Le Gangrene, shocked the public. The efforts of a few French and Algerian lawyers to defend Moslems against charges "confessed" to under torture have also attracted support...