Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only the rights of the victors that the Western powers have to defend in Berlin ? No! They stand for the hope of millions in East Europe and for the belief in the ability of democracy to survive...
...most part we have met with amused smirks or polite disinterest. Since we have spent our time and money to prepare for something we sincerely hope will never come, we would not hesitate to defend ourselves with guns if necessary against these same people who would be threatening our lives because of their ignorance...
...appeal lies in his iconoclastic approach to a branch of journalism that is densely populated with hero worshipers. To Murray, professional ballplayers are "skilled but one-talent guys, who should be grateful that baseball is around to pay them $80,000 a year." When ancient Archie Moore prepared to defend his light-heavyweight boxing title, Murray took unsentimental note of Moore's brocaded ring bathrobe and droopy trunks, which "made him look like a guy who just got out of a hotel fire in time." When pint-sized Jerry Barber won the P.G.A. golf tournament, Murray suggested that Barber...
...only hope that our marines will defend Guantanamo as valiantly as the French have defended Bizerte...
...made that the line must be drawn at South Viet Nam, the Kennedy Administration acted vigorously. Vice President Lyndon Johnson was dispatched to Saigon to assure President Ngo Dinh Diem that the U.S., though it had retreated in Laos, could be depended on to help South Viet Nam defend its freedom. In Washington, a special Viet Nam task force was set up in the State Department. Last week a committee headed by Stanford Research Institute Economist Eugene Staley, back from a four-week study of South Viet Nam, submitted an inch-thick secret report to President Kennedy containing a detailed...