Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, few teams have ever dominated their sport the way the Boston Celtics rule pro basketball. Going into this week's N.B.A. playoffs, they are top-heavy favorites to defend their league championship, are winning nearly four out of every five games. With two games still to play, the proud Celtics have already toted up 57 victories, five more than the league record they themselves set last year...
...plans to enter a seminary, forming a bitterness toward the church that he retains to this day, though he still considers himself Catholic ("My disagreements are not with the faith, but the church has been very weak in its position on the colonial question; it has tended to defend the status...
Hardest put to defend his territory was the general surgeon-who, ironically, was himself the king of specialists little more than a generation ago. As orthopedists (bone and joint men) spread out from the big medical-college centers, many surgeons find themselves driven back from the body's extremities. As they retreat to the trunk, they find gynecologists, urologists and others staking claims on some particular organ or area. Only half the general surgeons polled still do orthopedic operations; only one in five does urological, plastic or heart-artery procedures...
From the day he took office at the head of a raggle-taggle assemblage of Communists, Socialists, ex-Christian Democrats and assorted strays, Milazzo spent most of his time trying to defend his two-vote majority in Sicily's regional Assembly. He was under constant fire from both the Vatican and the Christian Democratic national government of Premier Antonio Segni. To keep his Communist support, Milazzo slipped Reds into government jobs all over Sicily. Fortnight ago, dismayed by the turn of events, four of Milazzo's supporters deserted, thereby wiping out his Assembly majority...
...rekindled a smoldering feud between Meany and able, aging (70) Asa Philip Randolph, head of the Sleeping Car Porters union and conspicuously the only Negro in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command. Honest A. Philip Randolph is no steady supporter of crafty Congressman Powell, but he felt obliged to defend Powell and rebuke Meany...