Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Democratic leadership tried gamely to defend Weaver's gaffe, Harvey's motion to cancel rent funds passed by 185 votes to 162. Twenty-five House members who had backed the bill last summer now voted to kill...
Each class runs one hour and 20 minutes. With 95 students working through a case, discussion is lively, often heated. Because there are no right or wrong answers--but rather an endless number of possible approaches--a student can take a provocative position. He will have to defend it by argument, and use every skill to survive the rebuttal...
...Transport and General Workers' Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Orated Clive Jenkins, leader of the superintendents' and technicians' union: "No party could enact legislation so obnoxious as this and continue to call itself either democratic or socialistic." Deputy Prime Minister George Brown rose to defend the measure. "There is coming about a recognition that we are partners in an industrial democracy," he insisted. His words won the day-and approval for Wilson's wages plan...
...problem in building a national memorial in the heart of Cambridge seems agonizingly difficult. Along the north side of the MBTA yards (the back of Brattle Square), he has to cope with motels, gas stations, and small stores, with their billboards and neon signs. "We must blend and defend," he says. "This is a great challenge...
...stand-ins, and other "in" demonstrations, members in Louisiana are often protected by the Deacons, a weapon-carrying Negro group formed for defense purposes. Says Farmer: "If the law enforcement officers of the city, county, and state fail to do their jobs, then people have the constitutional right to defend themselves. We've worked very closely with the Deacons, and though they're separate, it's very comforting to have them around...