Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Imposing Confederation." The pace was set, in majestic phrases, by the leader most often accused of undermining allied unity. In a television report to the French people on the summit fiasco, Charles de Gaulle declared: "France intends as far as she is concerned to be ready to defend herself. This means, first of all, that she shall remain an integral part of the Atlantic alliance." And behind the shield of the Atlantic alliance, emphasized De Gaulle, the nations of Western Europe "must organize to achieve their joint power and development...
...pacifism and his refusal to "condone the resistance to evil by violence." In this Pasternak erred, stated Chukovsky. Then, having made the necessary obeisance to the Kremlin, he went on strongly to praise his old friend as a "splendid fighter," a perfect model of how an artist "should defend his views without fear of falling out with his contemporaries or other disapproval, so long as he is convinced that his word is right, so long as he is convinced that his cause is sacred!" In ringing tones, whose echoes would surely resound in Nikita Khrushchev's office, Chukovsky concluded...
Company executives, the survey shows, defend the caste system as a source of discipline and respect: "Someone has to give orders; someone has to take them. If the relation between supervisor and subordinate is fettered by friendship, the company loses." For example, an accounting manager had two close friends who did a sloppy job working for him. Result? All three were fired. The reason, explains a member of top management, is simple: "Every supervisor at one time or another has to get tough with his subordinates. He can't do this if he's too friendly with...
...sector of his activities he must inspire his private and public conduct by the laws, orientation and instructions of the hierarchy." In response to the editorial, Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger, issued a statement: "The American officeholder is committed by an oath to God to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, which includes Article I providing for the separation of church and state." Kennedy's support of this principle "is not subject to change under any condition...
...this point the first triangle intersects the second, which is composed of a greying eminence (Welles) of the trial courts, his svelte young mistress (Greco), and her secret preference (Dillman), who happens to be the old man's legal assistant. The assistant is of course assigned to defend the meat-saw murderess, and after running around in triangles for an hour or so, the script comes at last to the predictable courtroom climax in which an awful lot of poetic justice is noisily done...