Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Administrative boards, once needed to protect "impractical" scholars from the "complex tasks of the real world," now serve only as conduits of political interference into universities, Galbraith said...
Barricade. In Athens' Kolonaki district, three soldiers and a captain called at 2 a.m. upon Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, who had heard of trouble and barricaded his door. The officer explained that they had come to protect him. "I need no protection," cried Kanellopoulos. "I am the Premier of Greece." The soldiers broke down the door. "Why don't you kill me here?" the Premier asked. The soldiers hustled him swiftly into an army truck and drove him off to a detention center...
...come under attack. Men of position who are a firm part of the Greek Establishment, they know that attacks on the monarchy threaten the system that grants them their privileges. Thus they were even willing to act against the King's will while protesting that they only sought to protect the monarchy...
...back a caretaker government that would carry the country through elections to be held late in May. But the Center Union Party sponsored a motion that would have assured Andreas his parliamentary immunity between the time when Parliament adjourned and the planned elections. The National Radical Union, unwilling to protect Andreas, backed out of the coalition. This time the King asked Kanellopoulos to form a government, touching off the upheaval that has led straight to the military takeover...
...They found Svetlana a receptive, if innocent, child. She had never had a bank account, had no idea that she would need a lawyer to protect her interests. All she hoped for from her manuscript was enough money to buy a car and a dog-a "gypsy" dog, she said, like her. Returning to New York, Greenbaum had no trouble landing her a contract with Harper & Row that would give her much more than car and dog: her book will be published in October, after serialization in LIFE and the New York Times, and Svetlana plans to donate some...