Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Implementing the liberalized economic program will be difficult while Novotny remains in charge, determined to protect the old party hacks who are running most of Czechoslovakia's economy. As Novotny explained not long ago: There is no need to fire an "old comrade" just because he can't count...
...rebel soldiers call themselves) in line. The rebels, like most Congolese, could not kick their tribal superstitions. One communique from a rebel officer ended with an urgent P.S.: "I beg monsieur le colonel to make sure that all bridges in our territory be washed with medicine to protect against bombardment...
Polaris-Malinovsky darkly warned that Russia's armed forces would "protect the fatherland and all countries of the Socialist community against any plots of aggressors." If Chou was impressed, he did not show it. To demonstrate his continued disdain for Khrushchevian wrong-think, he ducked around the back of Lenin's Tomb and paid a reverential visit to Stalin's modest grave outside the Kremlin wall...
...quicker to forgive Kasavubu than Tshombe. But Tshombe has a uniquely broad base of unpopularity. The Congo became independent on June 30, 1960. Within days, troops of the Force Publique began a series of violent acts against European residents and their property. On July 11, Belgian paratroopers arrived to protect Belgian civilians and touched off a widespread revolt by Congolese troops against their European officers. At the same time, Tshombe announced that his province of Katanga had seceded from the Congo. He immediately called in Belgian troops to maintain order and protect him from the national government...
...When my mother died, she, my sister, had become my mother, and more mother to me than any mother could ever have been. I was immensely proud of her. I shone in the reflection of her green-eyed black-haired gypsy beauty . . . She was innocent and guileless and infinitely protectable. She was naive to the point of saintliness and wept a lot at the misery of others. She felt all tragedies except her own. I knew that I had a bounden duty to protect her above all other creatures. It wasn't until thirty years later, when...