Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace marches, neither the Pope nor the Vice President need worry about American moral power. The demonstration proved once again the viability of dissent within a free society and, though it was attempting to do nothing of the kind, spoke eloquently for what the U.S. is trying to defend in South Viet Nam-namely, the right to speak...
...Much Force?" [March 24] is a germane question. However, I submit two thoughts: 1) It is not difficult for Monday-morning quarterbacks to condemn a police officer who, under great physical and emotional stress and in deadly combat with a deranged man, uses his service revolver to defend himself and the community he serves; but 2) it is difficult to understand why the public consistently vetoes improvements in training, salary and working conditions that would attract qualified applicants to the police service...
...press played it up as one of the decade's worst disasters. In a slow Easter week on Fleet Street, Britain's newspapers called it another Battle of Britain. A few correspondents even quoted Churchill's immortal words of that dark hour: "We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds." Fight what...
Having just finished reading the second of your copyrighted articles on Moral Rearmament (March 28), I am impelled to defend a classmate against the rather vicious innuendos of your writer, Mr. James K. Glassman. On page four, we read, "One big man with Sing-Out is Tom Galleway. He says he attended Harvard, but he is not listed in the Alumni Director...
...taken a longer, harder look before becoming involved; that there are many aspects, including the historical and tactical ones; that he will thoroughly study the situation and voice his opinions at the proper time; that as one who has made no mistakes there, he does not have anything to defend in connection with Vietnam; that he does not have access to classified information and cannot discuss specifics; that it would be imprudent to comment because the situation could change considerably in six months...