Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain implication of Kennedy's statement was that the U.S. would send arms and, if necessary, troops to defend the security that had been equated with its own. But nothing could have been further from Kennedy's intention, and only a few days later State Department officials and White House aides began downgrading the importance of Laos. Kennedy himself said, in a qualification that counted Laos out: "We can only defend the freedom of those who are ready to defend themselves." Actually, the new President had been caught in a talk-tough bluff aimed, at best, at achieving...
Foreign tennis fans could find small hope in the fact that Emerson & Co. probably will not be around to defend the Davis Cup next year: at week's end Fraser was already talking about retiring: Emerson and Laver insisted they had no immediate plans to turn pro. But these days, the top amateurs, both in the U.S. and Australia, almost always defect to the pros. But Australia plans for such losses. Ever since 1950, the ever-changing Aussie roster has almost always been good enough to lick the rest of the world. The teams...
...Rather touched" when a British stripling agreed to defend him in a school debate over which of four prominent men should be jettisoned to save a sinking balloon, Billionaire U.S. Oilman J. Paul Getty promptly supplied his paladin with a suggested brief. Unaware that his hypothetical fellow travelers were to be Fidel Castro, British Playwright John Osborne and Philosopher-Demagogue Bertrand Russell, Getty wrote: "I am only 13 stone [182 Ibs.] and therefore probably lighter than the rest. If there are other millionaires there, I'm probably the youngest at 68, so the oldsters should go." Finally came...
...corrupted." Summing up his indictment in a booklet ("The University") published by the Ford Foundation-financed Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Griswold doubted strongly that today's universities fully contribute to "society's moral health." Griswold further broadened his attack to include two old value-defending allies: "The family has become too scared of its children." and "the church too much of a social welfare organization." A thin, well-read line of scholars is not enough to defend the proposition that "in education, the customer isn't always right...
...Given McCormick's undeniable services to Amex, his colleagues might, in different circumstances, have taken a less stern view of his peccadilloes. But when the SEC investigations get into full swing early next year, the governors of the American Stock Exchange will have all they can do to defend their exchange as an institution, without having to make the case for Little Mac as well...