Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is not much doubt about the mother's purpose: to defend her son's name. She has been doing that ever since the assassination...
McCloskey, who resigned his ambassadorship only last month, had nothing to say about Baker. Of the VA hospital suit, he declared: "We can successfully defend our position." Meanwhile, White House aides hastened to point out that the ambassador's resignation was only a coincidence, had nothing whatever to do with his difficulties. McCloskey had intended to resign anyway, they said, to help raise money for the coming Democratic campaigns...
Griswold also requested the Lawyer's Committee on Civil Rights to assist Wallace with his defense. The committee has retained George E. Allen, a former President of the Richmond Bar Association, to defend the law student...
...patient to a dental surgeon to have a tooth pulled. But times have changed. Now many of the big firms can brag that along with all their other services they offer clients the skills of specialists in the belligerent arts of litigation. Since the troops first turned out to defend the electrical-equipment companies against price-fixing charges in 1960, the roster of counsel in this continuing flood of litigation has read like a roll call of the legal elite...
...Most of our literature and social philosophy after 1850 was the voice of freedom against authority, of the child against the parent, of the pupil against the teacher. Through many years I shared in that individualistic revolt. I do not regret it; it is the function of youth to defend liberty and innovation, of the old to defend order and tradition, and of middle age to find a middle way. But now that I too am old, I wonder whether the battle I fought was not too completely won. Let us say humbly but publicly that we resent corruption...