Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Commons. He had just learned that a band of armed men had invaded a Quebec armory and made off with a truckload of Canadian army weapons. It was the third such raid in less than a month, and Diefenbaker asked what was being done to "protect our armed forces." Another Opposition speaker sarcastically demanded assurances that the RCAF's new Bomarc missiles would not be stolen as well. Embarrassed officials of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's government could only reply that security measures were being tightened at armories all over Quebec. In their zeal, soldiers...
These were grave charges. But, Dodd insisted, his only aim in circulating the U.N. report to the Senate, was to protect the new regime in Saigon against "a possible recrudescence of the 'Buddhist' agitation, and protect Congress and the American public against a repetition of the one-sided and misleading reporting that unfortunately characterized the recent Buddhist crisis...
...close to being ridiculous that even a minor gaffe can make the audience explode with laughter. When Neil Johnson makes the emperor Callapine look and sound like Richard Nixon (leaning forward, shoulders hunched, slurring words like "mah empahr") or when Percy Granger as a lord assigned to protect Queen Zenocrate, gives her up to Tamburlaine ("We yield unto the, happy Tamburlaine"), in a voice that sounds like a public-address system announcer's, the play breaks down completely for a moment...
...steps of Moscow's newest department store to the tasseled Victorian lampshades in an Aeroflot jet, that looks as if it had never really been new. Walls and floors often bulge as if there were gophers in the woodwork; many new buildings are girdled with safety nets to protect passers-by from cascading bricks and plaster. From its pockmarked paneling, cracking plaster and flaking paint, Moscow's eight-year-old Ukraine Hotel looks almost as if it had been built for Mosfilm's movie of War and Peace. While party officials sing the praises of Orgalit...
Johnson has turned to a more selective policy that emphasizes rehabilitation over clearance, and human needs over planners' dreams. The President has proposed that the government buy and rehabilitate some 50,000 existing units per year; he has also realized the need to protect areas which will themselves become slums without proper maintenance. At the same time he has urged a more careful approach to the tremendous task of relocation where the "human cost... remains a serious and difficult problem." 157,000 people have been displaced by urban renewal, and less than 17% of them live in public projects. Often...