Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this comment, Dole referred to an inauspicious start to Buchanan's New Hampshire campaign. Yesterday, the social conservative was forced to defend the co-chair of his campaign, Larry Pratt, who allegedly has addressed audiences of neo-Nazis in the past and has been labeled a white supremacist by critics...
...liked the character of Rev. Peter Gomes' portrayal of the ideals and higher norms underlying the proposal he initiated--in recent years at least--for recognition by Harvard University and our community of those sons of Harvard who died to defend the perpetuation of American slavocracy. Who died, that is, under personal fidelity to the secessionist government of the Confederacy and to its anti-democratic and anti-humanitarian values and beliefs that formed the rationale and soul of American slavocracy...
...combatants gathered on a vast field. At one end, an ill-kempt mob is armed mainly with monkey wrenches and backyard barbecue forks. At the other end is a neat line of arrogant-looking men in red suspenders, ready to defend themselves with squash racquets. Behind them, their leader sits erect on a Trojan horse, wearing two powdered wigs. There is silence. Then the air is pierced by a maniacal giggle...
...architectural taste. It can no more be created today than one could create a Botticelli tondo or a Cellini bronze: its makers have died and, with them, a precious moment in history. It is the high calling of great institutions--universities, cathedrals and museums--to preserve, protect and defend such architectural legacies--these exemplars of human genius--from the ravages and vagaries of man and time...
...SICK OF READING LAME DEFENSES OF Internet pornography under the feeble guise of the free exchange of information. Pornography is not information. It is an insidious, infectious disease. Those who value the Internet's potential for building the global community should be at the spearhead of campaigns to defend the Net from antisocial perverts rather than burying their heads in the sand of spineless, amoral political correctness. Societies have always tried to legislate against behavior that threatens vulnerable groups of innocent people. Only criminals object to such laws. ALISTAIR MCNAUGHT Winchester, England...