Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major concern of ours has been the preparedness of this nation, the ability of this nation to defend itself to deter war - the ability of its soldiers, sail ors and airmen to protect themselves without being straitjacketed or stripped of weapons...
...offered another more plausible, and far more bizarre, explanation. At least 75 U.S. counterintelligence agents had done undercover work to help crack the Sokolov operation. Their testimony would be the core of the Government's case. Then, early last week, Attorney Edward Brodsky, appointed by the court to defend Sokolov and Joy Ann, dusted off a U.S. statute passed in 1795, which provides that the Government must reveal the "abode" of any witness in the federal trial of persons charged with a capital offense. Brodsky demanded and got a list of the names and home addresses...
Pyrrhic Victory. With that, the newspapers erupted in a new frenzy, accused Frederika of everything from pathos, which in modern Greek can mean "evil stubbornness," to being "unqueenly" in using the press to defend herself, warned that she had "hard days to live...
...words of the Doty Committee, "a program that originated with a strong sense of urgency and direction has become increasingly difficult to defend or even understand." A program that began as a unified, recognizable whole has lost much of its coherence because of the exigencies of the Harvard experience...
Tribal State. In an ambitious attempt to win over the montagnards, U.S. military advisers in 1962 started a program to train and arm them so that they could defend their villages from guerrilla attack. More than 9,000 were schooled by U.S. Special Forces instructors, who found them to be fierce, loyal fighters, extremely useful in cutting Communist Viet Cong supply lines in jungle-covered mountains; most came from the relatively civilized Rhade (pronounced Rah-day) tribe. However, when the hated lowlanders from the Vietnamese government gradually took over the program, racial tension mounted in the training camps, and montagnards...