Word: fends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rely on a trust fund which she set up. Last week Editor Michael Straight, 36, son of the founders, announced a radical change. The trustees, in "the interests of beneficiaries who are minors," will no longer put money into the New Republic (circ. 36,000). Hence forth, NR will fend for itself. Editor Straight, having raised money from "businessmen, bankers and lawyers," named a new publisher: Gilbert Harrison, 37, a U.C.L.A. graduate; one of the founders and an ex-national chairman of the American Veterans Committee (which Straight also once headed...
Emboldened by this great discovery, Kesa revolted against the secretary: he wanted his money, he wanted to get off the veranda, and he wanted to play a part in Parliament. But the secretary merely cut off Kesa's food allowance, and left him to fend for himself, hungry, broke and unable to speak to anyone in the great, strange town. That was why Kesa, the brave hunter, had wept...
...storm-ravaged coast of Southwest Ireland lie the six fog-bound Blasket Isles,* where 14 centuries ago Ireland's Celtic saints built Christian shrines of turf and mud to fend off pixies, pookas, hobgoblins and leprechauns. In 1588, a 1,000-ton Spanish galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair...
...compulsory national health service, Governor Murray nevertheless lambasted the profession for the 'millions of dollars spent in the last ten years to fight such schemes. "You have been able to scare the very britches off the politicians," he said, "and to date you have been able to fend off the advances of the socialistic trend, but you and I both know you haven't stopped it by any means . . . During all of this fight you have failed completely to rally a militant public opinion to your support . . . What about your neighbors across the alley or your patients...
Never Forget. During World War II, many a medical man was forced to leave his private patients to fend for themselves. The osteopaths got their business, but still chafed at the fact that the Army did not consider their professional services worth drafting into military service. They get just as touchy over the patronizing assumption of broad-minded M.D.s that osteopathy will one day "be absorbed into the general practice of medicine." "Never," says Assistant Executive Secretary Eldon McKenna of the American Osteopathic Association, "at least, never so long as medical men refuse to accept the osteopathic cause and cure...