Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replied Imbert, embracing her. "We know you killed Trujillo," someone shouted. Imbert beamed. A young man identified himself as a former rebel. "I turned my gun in to the norteamericanos" he explained. "But now I am afraid to go home because the police will arrest me." Imbert promised to protect...
...attacks that are fatal to 500,000 adult Americans seem poles apart as subjects for medical research. But doctors half the world away from each other have just implicated the same reflex as a possible cause of both killers: a primitive response apparently built into the human body to protect it against asphyxiation...
...ENTRENCHED MANAGEMENT: "The not very good thing that happens in most corporations is that the president appoints a lot of the directors. Some companies oper» ate a mutual protective society for presidents. They all cross-exchange. They stay on each other's boards and they protect each other. They put out a ballot with one slate and you can vote yes or no, but there is a 99% vote because there is only one slate. You have no alternative but to vote with management. Not all of the stockholders' suggestions can be bad; some should be listened...
...become policymakers. The Trib's Collier complained to U.S. officials that marines were allowed to shoot back when shot at from outside the international zone. "He got quite upset," says one. "He refused to understand that this is not child's play and that our men must protect themselves." Both Collier and Szulc reported last week that U.S. troops were helping the loyalists fight the rebels in northern Santo Domingo, but no other reporters confirmed this story, and many flatly contradicted it. The New York Times ran an Air Force picture purportedly showing U.S. troops aiding the junta...
Eddie Amsel is fat, clever, half-Jewish. Walter Matern is lean, brooding, half-heartedly Aryan. Matern protects Amsel when other schoolboys mock his fatness or yell "sheeny." He cannot tell why he does this, nor why sometimes he squirms away from his obligation to protect and yells "sheeny" himself. The unbreakable and intolerable bond between the two friends-one not wholly a Jew or admirable, the other not wholly an Aryan or despicable-gives the book its symbolic structure...