Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AAUP has established a set of recommended steps for universities to take when contemplating the dismissal of an officer. One of these urges that the person charged with an offense be given a formal hearing at which he may defend himself...
...life of the university and to society should include these elements, since science includes them. A science course so constructed as to encompass these elements makes an important contribution to General Education. It need not by that token make a poorer contribution to an education in science. One can defend the view that it is all the better science for being good General Education." (Redbook, p. 222; not italicized in the original...
...Permutation is the appropriate word here, because this Italian film has no new novelties to offer. It gives a straight forward account of civilian resistance to a German occupation after Badoglio's surrender in September, 1943. The citizens of Naples hail the armistice, then discover that Hitler intends to defend Italy and treat his former allies as a conquered people. When the Wehrmacht starts rounding up men for labor crews in Germany, Naples rebells. Four days later the harassed Germans release hostages and abandon the city...
...most Latin American nations standing against him, Duvalier sent an emissary flying to Manhattan to plead his case before the United Nations Security Council. Haiti's Foreign Minister René Chalmers pictured poor Negro Haiti as surrounded on all sides by enemies. "The Haitian people are determined to defend their sovereignty and independence, and in so doing they are defending the cause of the black peoples," said Chalmers. "The independence of the only black nation in America must be safeguarded." The Russians used the occasion to work up anti-Yankee propaganda, but Haiti's appeal to the Afro...
France out of currency crises with massive loans, persuaded the ten leading industrialized nations to set up a special currency pool to defend their currencies. He was tough in insisting on fiscal discipline, cutting off help to such nations as Turkey and Brazil when they refused to cooperate. His reputation as a conservative enabled him sometimes to espouse unorthodox measures without being accused of seeking change simply for its own sake. Jacobsson always mistrusted liberal economists, even when he found himself agreeing with them. He once said: "I'm a bit afraid of any economist who has not seen...