Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more bucks to spend on nonnuclear bangs, Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup, 56, reminded the American Ordnance Association that even in the age of the H-bomb, a man with a rifle has unique utility. "An H-bomb," noted the bespectacled Medal of Honor winner, "cannot defend a base. An H-bomb cannot control or restore order where it lands. An H-bomb can only destroy...
...earlier time, the approval of a majority of the populace may have provided these statutes with a just raison d'etre. Now, the lack of consent among that same majority has transformed them into nothing but a source of irritation and laughter. Only two groups remain to defend what have become really illegitimate impositions on the rest of the state. The first, the minority which believes militantly in the faiths which formerly predominated in Massachusetts society, still refuses to recognize that most citizens no longer observe its orthodox strictures. These people will never tolerate, for example, the majority opinion that...
...trying to defend the corrupt administration of the pre-war Chiang Kai-shek government that, to a great extent, was responsible for the Communist takeover of the China mainland. But if I had to choose between two evils, I would choose the lesser...
Heavyweight champion Floyd Paterson will defend his title against Tom McNeeley of Arlington tonight in Toronto. Sonny Liston takes on Albert Westphal in the first half of the boxing doubleheader...
...Storke's "sturdy conviction and judgment''). "For 61 years I've been dodging brickbats." said Tom Storke. "Tonight it is a little difficult to accept these orchids. What I did was not a courageous gesture. It should not be considered courageous to stand up and defend what God and the Constitution have given...