Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall be able to defend Innocence, to punish Guilt, and to promote Truth and Justice among mankind," Adams wrote, but his Nobel future was apparently threatened by subversion from within. "If I look upon a Law Book and labor to exert all my attention," reads a draft letter to an unidentified correspondent, my Eyes tis true are on the Book, but Imagination is at a Tea Table with Orlinda." He imagined "a scene of Pleasure ... which seems to be grappled to my soul with Hooks of Steal, as immoveably as I wish to grapple in my Arms the Nimph...
...several hoorays for Phyllis McGinley [June 18] and her philosophy! May she continue to write her charming poetry, housekeep, and defend all other keepers of the home for many more years to come...
...rise to defend the quite possible She"-and glory in the rays of her talent. As a former student of Phyllis McGinley's at a Westchester County high school, I want to thank you for an inspiring article. For years I have read her poems for children to my daughter and followed through to Times Three and Sixpence in Her Shoe, marveling at her insight, wit and sensitiveness. May good fortune follow her always. That issue of TIME will remain in my files ad infinitum...
...descended from the fiery Arabs imported to the New World by Cortes and his conquistadors, and the rigors of the prairies notably improved the breed. The mustangs of 1850 were short (14-15 hands), hardy and fast: the stronger stallions kept manadas of 20 or 30 mares, and to defend the mares from randy rivals they fought frightful battles to the death...
...fortress. Caamaño bitterly accused the OAS troops of firing first. Answering that, Brazil's General Alvim angrily insisted: "More than 1,000 rounds of small-arms fire and a few mortar shells were received before we returned the fire. My troops fired back to defend themselves...