Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Castro's threats came close to being the last straw. The U.S. Government announced that not only would it continue its aerial reconnaissance flights until it had proof that a military buildup had stopped, but that it would defend the flights if necessary. If Castro shoots down a U.S. aircraft, the U.S. is prepared to 1) bomb certain Cuban antiaircraft installations already targeted for U.S. air strikes, and 2) bomb the Il-28s now crated or semiassembled at San Julian airfield in western Cuba...
...varsity sailors will seek revenge against the Coast Guard Cadets this weekend, when they defend the Leonard M. Fowie Trophy at New London. Although the Cadets captured the Schell trophy from Harvard a week ago, the Crimson sailors are confident that they can edge the Academy in the team-sailing competition Saturday and Sunday...
Most of the essays are tantalizingly short, far too short to answer the questions they raise. This is more apparent with three dozen of them gathered together. The thematic element is lacking: Newman has not cared to make his scientific values explicit, or to defend his obvious and probably justified bias for mathematics in the scheme of things. True, Science and Sensibility is offered as the compendium of personal interests; but I still believe that Newman's concerns must be bound together by more than a Scientific American cover...
...consistent philosophical justification. It is too departmental to be anti-departmental, too unselective to try to emphasize (as the Redbook wished) the more traditional fields--Physics, Chemistry, and Biology; History and Political Philosophy; Literature--within the three areas. Those who attack the program have many arguments; those who defend it only one: we need it. And although members of the permanent Gen Ed Committee have given this defense eloquently and often, it has been unsatisfactory. For it does not say exactly what the College needs...
...Kennedy, lacking conspicuous qualifications, secured himself the Democratic nomination, he took on certain obligations. In the ensuing campaign he disregarded all of them. The refusal to debate with his Republican and Independent opponents might have been excusable if the candidate chose some other forum to set forth and defend his program. But Ted's candidacy served no expository function; he did not present the New Frontier goals to the voters of Massachusetts. Lacking imagination, humility and conviction, the youngest Kennedy substituted a smile, a slogan, and a great deal of money. The best that can be said in his defense...