Word: fends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout his 8'½ years as leader of the Christian Democrats in parliament, Ranier Barzel, 48, had to fend off steady criticism from both his Social Democratic Party foes and his colleagues within the alliance of the Christian Democratic Union and Bavaria's Christian Social Union. He has been assailed as an ambitious opportunist with an all too obvious thirst for power and condemned for his irritating, seemingly insincere political style. As one S.D.P. leader put it: "After every 5,000 words, he has to have his oil changed...
Barrington Moore even posed the question of whether reforms enlarging student powers had worked at other universities. This is akin to assessing federal poverty programs on the basis of past failures; since previous programs failed, the poor should fend for themselves [Richard Nixon...
...city services. Because of the large amount of attention generated by the civil rights movement. Congress felt it had to appease black and other minority groups. Thus the areas selected for federal programs have almost always included only the poorest ghetto areas, leaving the lower middle class whites to fend for themselves...
Frankle's lone draw came in the sixth round against Jeffrey Kastner of City College. The game played down to a bishop vs. knight endgame, throughout which Frankle had to fend off the threat of a couple of passed pawns...
...either case, see no hope for self-advancement in the reality of changing American life. They are struggling to adhere to the values by which they have been raised amidst an era of upheaval in which those values have been betrayed, Theirs is a last ditch effort to fend off the Powers of the unknown ("Can Jesus deliver a drug addict? Can Jesus deliver a homosexual?") and to realize symbolic economic success in traditional ways ("I resolved to use that Cadillac for God.") These survivors of the rural lower middle class put their faith in an authoritarian figure who facilitates...