Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulties in Indochina did not mean that the U.S. had been rendered impotent elsewhere. "Let no potential adversary believe that our difficulties or our debates mean a slackening of our national will," he warned. "We will stand by our friends. We will honor our commitments. We will uphold our country's principles." Although those terse sentences seemed pointedly designed as applause lines, they drew little...
...suppose that such secrets can be kept for a time, but in our society they cannot be kept forever. These are agencies that find their honor in the way they uphold the law. Nothing is more ruinous to them than actions that violate the very law they are entrusted to enforce. If the laws are not constructed in such a way as to confine our police and intelligence agencies to their legitimate work, then the days are numbered for freedom in this country. I am very much opposed to the Government's constantly looking over every citizen...
Vicarious degradation from the godfathers of mercenary humiliation is not "lighthearted havoc" [March 10]. The humble-pie manifesto reads clearly between the lines: 1) stamp out sanity, 2) uphold anarchy, 3) wreak pandemonium, and 4) escape reality...
...London's leading barrister, perhaps he will stop his nostalgic mooning and get on with the business of defending the excellent name and fortune she married. Can anyone, after all, seriously believe that she promised to marry an assistant purser of the Mauretanial Could any jury possibly uphold the purser's claim of ? 50,000 damages in a breach-of-promise suit...
...face count of 178. Pie-Kill's manifesto, composed by Founder Rex Weiner, a pastry-faced 24-year-old, reads as if it had been collectively written by P.O. Wodehouse, James Bond and the Three Stooges. "Our high duty," it announces, "is to 1) stamp out pomposity; 2) uphold the virtues of surprise, randomness and chaos; 3) wreak lighthearted havoc whenever and wherever possible; and 4) get away with...