Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gradually adopted a paternal feeling toward them. New settlers poured in, built themselves Victorian towns and sturdy houses, and planted mealies (corn) and tobacco on the veld. When more land was needed, the natives were moved off, until in 1928 the officials decided something had to be done to protect them. The result was the Land Apportionment Act, which set aside roughly half of the countryside as "native reserves"-but also prohibited the blacks from owning or even leasing land in white areas...
...civil rights, closing schools and universities, centers of the protests, and jailing pro-Pakistan politicians. Units of the 30,000-man India-controlled police force have waded into demonstrators and beaten scores to the ground with their lathis (long, steel-tipped staves). Fearing a full-scale revolt, government officials protect their homes with sandbags and helmeted troops; soldiers guard all important bridges and public buildings...
...would still be unwilling to support the war if we felt that a Vietnamese Communist government could maintain any semblance of independence. But we do not see how a Vietnamese Communist government could stay free of a declaredly expansionist China. Could it hope to protect the "rice bowl" of South Vietnam against a country which recently had to spend millions of dollars buying "Canadian wheat? China has marched it army to the borders of a country as well-befriended as India. Sihanouk, whose country has no border with China, fears its domination. Marshal Lin Pao's recent manifesto unabashedly admits...
...Agents Culp and Cosby do their best to protect the life of an arrogant mobster so he can inform on a Hong Kong racket. Color...
...hostile to such groups. He pictures himself as persecuted by professional liberals, civil rights leaders, the state of California, and the federal government; certainly he has been able to cooperate with none of them. (For example, Los Angeles has no poverty program.) Yorty takes all this abuse only to protect the little guy, i.e., the Los Angeles homeowner-and-casual bigot...