Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking for the Supreme Court, which viewed TV news films of the entire incident, Justice Arthur Goldberg said that "the students were wellbehaved throughout." What the police feared, he added, was white reaction; their paramount duty was to protect rather than attack the peaceful Negroes. Out went Cox's first conviction, by unanimous vote-along with Louisiana's "unconstitutionally vague" breach-of-the-peace statute...
...once mighty organ, some of whose parts date back to 1475, has suffered severe internal injuries over the centuries. In 1836 a fire swept the cathedral and silenced the organ for a decade. Two world wars took an even heavier toll. The cathedral's stainedglass windows, removed to protect them from bombing raids, were replaced by sheets of oilcloth, which soon developed gaping holes, admitting not only rain and wind but also squadrons of pigeons that fancied the organ pipes as a roost. For years afterwards, repairmen were extracting pigeon skeletons from the pipes; some pipes have already caved...
...American fact. These children cannot respond to what is being taught, and most educators resist changing the curriculums to aid these children." Kenneth B. Clark, New York psychologist and civil rights leader, holds that "the Negro kid who drops out of school is probably doing so to protect himself from a system designed to throw him on the dung heap of our society...
...missions carried them to Ban Ban (which in Laotian means Village of Villages), a tiny cluster of about 100 shacks on stilts noted more for the rice whisky its inhabitants produce than for anything else. But the Ban Ban area is dotted with camouflaged antiaircraft batteries designed to protect the key bridge near by, a 50-yd.-long span across the Nam Mat River used by the Reds in their supply line from North Viet Nam. When the Communists shot down a camera-carrying jet, the U.S. started sending armed escorts. When one of the latter was downed, U.S. fighter...
...sophisticated electronic countermeasures may be the latest thing in aerial warfare, say Entomologists Dorothy C. Dunning and Kenneth D. Roeder of Tufts University, but the idea is not at all new to non-human flyers. For millions of years, shifty moths have been using similar sound-pulsing stunts to protect them selves from marauding bats...