Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother-in-law, whose scowl could knock down a tree, Muhammad gives the most memorable performance. She is engaging and her movements across the stage purposeful and powerful. One could only wish to have a mother so fiercely loyal that she would be so bad in an effort to defend one's post-mortem honor. Cheek and Legagneur transmit their characters' annoying qualities of boundless naivete and excessive idealism very well, though in general both were lacking in subtlty of emotion (not a serious liability in a melodrama of this magnitude). Legagneur's Gratuitous Shirtless Scene provided a clue...
...Alexander battling for third place. As the focus of the presidential race shifts to the south, each candidate hopes to use a strong showing in South Carolina as a springboard to primaries in Georgia on March 5 and Florida on March 12. Dole spent much of Thursday's debate defending himself from charges by the others that he was a chronic tax raiser. Even as Alexander began to defend himself for a spot attacking Dole for supporting $320 billion in tax increases, Forbes rushed to pile on. "The ad is misleading," he said, and suggested that the actual number...
...Anthropology Michael Herzfeld, who resigned from the editorial board of CUP in protest, interprets this matter much differently. He sees the decision as a clear violation of academic freedom. In an interview with The Crimson last week, Herzfeld said, "It is the moral duty of the university presses to defend [academic freedom] as far as they are able to and [CUP] did not do that...
...punching bag and made each of his sons pound it four times a week: 100 times with the left, 100 times with the right, 200 combinations. For Pop, as for his son Pat, the holy trinity was faith, family and country, and a fellow had to be able to defend them with fists as well as words...
...really ought to give him some kind of chance to defend himself before we brand him a fugitive," said Colangelo, alluding to one of Ford's most popular films...