Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meeting Gomulka halfway, in the primeval depths of Bialowieza Forest on the Russo-Polish border, they conferred in a Czarist hunting lodge, while the last sizable herd of European bison stomped and snuffled outside; inside, B. & K. buffaloed Gomulka with reasons and reassurances. He went away satisfied enough to defend Khrushchev's ouster in a Warsaw speech two days later...
...that The future lies ahead,' and that The boys of today will be the men of tomorrow.' " ∙The Philadelphia Bulletin detected a new earnestness of rhetoric in the campaigns last week: "Until Election Day, Voltaire's famous remark is amended to read, T will defend to the death your right to say what you have just said, but if you say it again, I'll poke you one in the kisser...
...speeches opened the floodgates for a barrage of questions, lectures, and philosophical ramblings from the 25 undergraduates who showed up. Gill was called on to defend specific aspects of the report...
There are critics (Grove is already assembling them) who will defend as art and high realism a book that describes such life and death with the primitive but undeniable power and anger that Author Selby demonstrates. But Last Exit to Brooklyn is not realism at all. Instead, it is a hypocrisy just as flagrant as the old-fashioned kind that wrote for dirty words and **** for scenes of sex. What Selby scrupulously elides are all the pleasant moments of life. What's left, he tells in a style that will also inevitably be hailed as "tape-recorder realism"-because...
...some, and for the first time, a pall fell over the this hand of spectators on the sidelines. The Crimson's hitherto untouched goal line was foremost in everybody's mind, and a hush descended as the Exeter forward addressed the ball and Crimson goalkeeper Norris Childs crouched to defend his nets...