Word: defenders
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TIME serves America badly by publishing the senile, regressive and unsubstantiated statements intended to defend the Establishment, no matter what...
...place national responsibilities ahead of union interests. Since Wilson formed his government in 1964, Labor and labor have been at arm's length-if not sword's point. While the unions harped on the issues of workingmen's pay and pride, the party was attempting to defend the pound and rescue a faltering economy, among other ways by keeping wages in line. As a result, Labor has begun to regard labor as an occasionally dangerous liability. The feeling is mutual...
...were lasting cathartic experiences for many-for H. Stuart Hughes as well as for Betsy. When the Faculty convened to debate Afro Studies and consider Alan Heimert's strongly worded resolution. Professor Hughes, two-thirds of the way through his term as chairman of the History Department, rose to defend the sanctity of Faculty control over such matters as curriculum and appointment policy. This was the same H. Stuart Hughes who in 1962 ran for the Senate on a platform sufficiently unpopular to garner about 6 per cent of the vote, and who was still, when I came to Harvard...
...more radical, less naive, more and more they have already tried dope, and like politics, they have gone beyond it. We just seem to sit back and marvel at such precosity, while remembering how painfully we reached the same kinds of consciousness. A few of you will try to defend Pusey's Harvard, and for you I feel kind of guilty. Because the rest of us will be trying to pull it out from under you, and it can get pretty frustrating to live for four years on the defensive...
...same reaction from Hitler: "We can only go forward. The bridges behind us are broken." The Führer belabored his generals openly as "notorious liars as well as notorious cowards," and took charge of the war himself. He refused to allow Speer to build jet fighters to defend Germany against Allied aircraft, wanted jet bombers instead to attack the enemy. He persuaded Speer to develop the V-2 rocket. "It was probably one of the greatest errors I made," Speer writes. "We should have concentrated our efforts on the production of the ground-to-air missile...