Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking the country downhill," has failed in five areas: peace ("There was no Wall under President Eisenhower"), prestige ("an alltime low"), progress ("progress all right-but in the wrong direction"), party support ("On the satellite bill, nobody from the President's own party would stand up and defend him"), and purpose ("Democrats are hungry for power to fasten more control on farmers and businessmen...
Even before Under Secretary of Agriculture Charles Murphy had a chance to speak for himself, six Democratic Senators, like so many John Aldens, leaped up to defend him. Oregon's Wayne Morse went so far as to solicit an opinion from Harry Truman. Said Morse: "Mr. Truman authorized me to say on the floor of the Senate this afternoon that he knows Charles Murphy to be an honest man through and through." Murphy could only be grateful for such testimonials. Throughout nine weeks of hearings by a Senate subcommittee, past and present Agriculture Department underlings had fingered...
Because he so strongly resisted the ideas and political trends of the 19th century, Pio Nono has seemed to many historians to be a relic of medieval times. Yet many Catholic scholars defend his courage, if not his wisdom, and regard him as the founder of the modern papacy. Pope John XXIII regards Pius IX as "an admirable shepherd," whose beatification will be an appropriate symbol of the aims of the Council...
...record of Henry Mercer's 12-meter Weatherly spoke for itself. Three times off Newport last week, Weatherly trounced Ross Anderson's Nefertiti to make a runaway of their climactic duel for the right to defend the America's Cup next month against Australia's Gretel. In each of the three races, the boat skippered by Bus Mosbacher won by a bigger margin...
...easy victor in four straight races against Britain's Sceptre in 1958, Columbia was the overwhelming early favorite to defend the cup again this year. But critics argued that Investment Banker Paul Shields, who bought Columbia (for about $150,000) from a New York syndicate in 1961, had "ruined a good boat" by tampering with her (Columbia's keel had been shortened), that Skipper Cornelius ("Glit") Shields Jr., 28, the owner's nephew, was too young and inexperienced to handle a big America's Cup yacht...