Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgia. In 1939 Birch graduated from Georgia's Baptist-controlled Mercer University as the top man in his class, leaving behind him a record that is still recalled. "He was always an angry young man, always a zealot," says a classmate. "He felt he was called to defend the faith, and he alone knew what it was." Says a psychology professor: "He was like a one-way valve: everything coming out and no room to take anything...
Since March 29, 1960, the New York Times has been in deep trouble in the Deep South. On that date the Times carried a full-page advertisement appealing for funds to help defend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Negro leader, against a charge of falsifying his state income tax returns. Signed by four Alabama Negro ministers, the ad accused "Southern violators of the Constitution" with bombing King's home, assaulting his person and harassing him in an effort "to remove him physically as the leader to whom the students and millions of others look for guidance and support...
PORTLAND (Me.) PRESS-HERALD: We stoutly defend the right of any church to teach its doctrine. But we cannot underwrite that doctrine...
...income tax in Latin America runs only about 30% even on incomes over $1,000,000.* In addition, personal and corporate tax evasion costs Latin American governments an estimated $2 billion in revenues each year. Latin American governments spend about $1.4 billion each year on armed forces that often defend nothing more than pride...
Cohen has often had to defend his pictures against attacks that claim they are immoral a bad influence, or just plain trash. "Everyone gets into the act," he said. "My pictures are horror, but in a supernatural vein. No adolescent can leave the theatre and turn into a Konga or a Teenage Werewolf...