Word: contend
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...problems which a democracy such as ours has to contend with, but which is wholly non-existent under a totalitarian system is that of the degree of free press which should be allowed in wartime. A large amount of popular criticism of the government and its officials is a sine qua non of popular criticism of the government, and we would be denying ourselves one of the most valuable features of the American inheritance if we restricted it beyond the immediate requirement of military censorship. But during an all-out war such as this one, we must distinguish between healthy...
Critics and Defenders. A man so furiously vigorous and drastic as the Shah in Shah is bound to have detractors. They contend he is nothing more than another Oriental despot who has caused shoals of his enemies to be murdered, tortured, kidnapped, imprisoned. They claim he slaps Cabinet Ministers in the face, beats up priests, kicks irksome subjects in the crotch. (It is said that for tiresome gabbling he once booted even Crown Prince Mohammed Reza into a palace fountain.) Iran is ruled entirely by fear, they insist; bribery is still prevalent, taxation overpowering; Iran's 136-man National...
...Committee. Ever since Henderson, in a particularly tactless moment, blurted that Martin Dies was "not a responsible member of Congress," the Dies Committee has been out to get him or his staff. Last week the committee had obtained a list of all his employes, 40 of whom (its agents contend) have written for Communist publications. These and other alleged links with Moscow will be fashioned into needles for some Congressmen to use against price controls...
Last week Brother Kiyoshi chalked up another double: the 800-meter and 1,500-meter championships (all events have been changed to metric distances this year). But this year he had more than his kid brother to contend with. In the 400-meter free-style his title was copped by up-&-coming, 17-year-old Bill Smith Jr., a kinky-red-haired fellow Hawaiian (part English), who a few months ago broke the world's records for 200, 300 and 400 meters. Teammate Smith, nicknamed Malolo (flying fish) by his native playmates because he has no Hawaiian name, also...
...possibly have been forced back two-thirds of the way to Moscow unless there were traitors among its officers. So once more he instituted political commissars to fight a "ruthless struggle against all cowards, panic-mongers and deserters." Henceforth, Russian officers would have politicians as well as Germans to contend with...