Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam Veteran. Drafted to defend a dubious cause in which he has no interest, into an Army whose officers may cheat him, to fight through a hell of swamps and heat on behalf of a corrupt government whose reluctant troops are incompetent-only to return, quick or dead, to a homeland where the enemy is encouraged by his contemporaries and many of his legislators and his own sacrifices are ridiculed. No Moon...
...have heard similar, though smaller reports from returned servicemen-not rabid peaceniks but "average American boys" who defend their sickening conduct. I have done nothing about these accounts, and God knows what my guilt is. Am I the only...
Incipient Tragedy. Society has a duty to defend itself against private armies; there can be no argument that Panther arms caches should be broken up just like those of the Mafia or the Ku Klux Klan or the Minutemen. But because of the special history of injustice to blacks, there is incipient tragedy in the use of conventional police tactics against them. Besides, says Lou Smith, a black who heads Operation Bootstrap in Los Angeles, "the police don't use that kind of stuff on the Klan or the Minutemen. You don't find police shooting them down...
Several coordinated bands of wildly, attired and long-haired demonstrators occupied parts of Harvard Square Thursday afternoon and for an hour of chaotic holiday season celebrations. The invaders shattered the complacency of mid-afternoon shoppers and forced them to cluster together along the sidewalks to defend their peace of mind...
...Rome's 432 churches, prayers were offered "to spare Italy the calamity of divorce." Before an audience of 250 Italian newlyweds, Pope Paul VI declared that legislators should "venerate, honor and defend" the indissolubility of marriage. Premier Mariano Rumor urged his colleagues to make "one last careful meditation." All to no avail. Amid prayer vigils, the Chamber of Deputies adopted, by a 325-to-283 vote, a bill that will permit divorce for the first time in modern Italian history...