Word: fends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, India's leaders had no wish to of fend their visitor. Afghanistan was never publicly mentioned by Gandhi during Brezhnev's trip, though she expressed hope that the "independence" of India's neighbors would not come "under jeopardy." Afghanistan also went unmentioned in the joint declaration released after Brezhnev's departure. The document blandly stated that both countries "reiterate their opposition to all forms of out side interference in the internal affairs of the countries of the region...
...Tragedy of Childhood," concerns the sexual awakening of adolescence, "the first stirrings of manhood," the unleashing of the dogs of sex. The protagonists--Melchior, Moritz, Wendla, and Ilse--feel these stirrings, and are confused by them, and find no direction from a daft and hypocritical matriarchy. Left to fend for themselves in the erotic floodtide, some swim, others drown. This, for Wedekind, is the central point; the sexual impulse is merely a force, and as a force has no moral content; it should be recognized as such, and neither hidden nor judged; it is as likely to produce Death...
...embattled liberal Democrats this election year, none has come under more heavy and sustained fire than Idaho Senator Frank Church. No. 1 on the Republican hit list, he has had to fend off attacks not only from his feisty opponent, four-term Republican Congressman Steven Symms, but also from combative conservatives who have formed an organization called ABC-Anyone but Church. Amid Idaho's piny woods and parched plains, where voters peer skeptically out from under their cowboy hats and pop questions like gunshots, the candidates are waging one of the rowdiest, most name-calling campaigns in the nation...
...Funding for Research. Without vigorous, farsighted and continuing encouragement of scientific research, we are in the position of eating our seed corn: we may fend off starvation for one more winter, but we have removed the last hope of surviving the following winter...
When a case involves Nixon's acts as President, the Justice Department is responsible for defending him, or paying private attorneys to do so. In either event, the taxpayer foots the bill. But in other civil cases, Nixon must fend for himself and pay for legal help. His estimated bill to date: nearly half a million dollars...