Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Other Democrats are afraid of Meyer's ideas and find them difficult to defend. One factory owner from Bennington, important figure in the State, was certain that Meyer should have tempered his arguments to appeal to different voter groups. "Whenever I start talking about Bill Meyer," he observed, "I get into fights, sometimes even first fights. I wish he'd made more of an effort to get the veteran's vote--Armistice Day is too late--by toning down his ideas on the draft...
...restaurants with their wives. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting. One important head of a delegation could not keep an appointment with me because he was too busy shopping.* This is the way they defend themselves against socialism...
...figure out the easiest and fastest way to get over the goal line," says Schwartzwalder. "Well, we don't concentrate on the easiest or fastest way. We just concentrate on getting there. We believe in massing our men, and we start at tackle and make the enemy defend that spot so heavily he'll be weak elsewhere. The only way you can run effectively over that tackle is to double-team him. We usually have our tackle hit him low, and then our end hits him high...
...other Latin American nations. Since these nations are not about to sanction U.S. intervention of any sort (which would violate the letter and the spirit of the treaties they have induced the U.S. to sign), and since any U.S. threat would remind Khrushchev of his promise last May to defend Cuba, Kennedy is actually on safe, albeit blustering and ineffectual ground...
...away from narrow nationalism. Europe can survive only if it is incorporated in a vaster community, the Atlantic community." Debre replied soothingly: "It is important that the French should have the feeling that there is no peace, no freedom, no future, if France and Germany do not defend the same cause...