Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Halperin said that "the Chinese appear to believe they may be forced to intervene to protect the political integrity of North Vietnam, and that this would lead to an attack on China...
Senators never felt grander. The Congress decided what industries to protect with tariffs, what railroads to build, what public works to undertake. They chose, or thought they chose, Presidents. And they were hawks: the Senate had more than its share in pushing the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. Some time before, a young scholar named Woodrow Wilson had written mournfully: "The President may tire the Senate by dogged persistence, but he can never deal with it upon a ground of real equality. His power does not extend beyond the most general suggestion. The Senate always has the last word...
...arts, is currently undergoing a tight fit with religion: Catholic bishops who want to celebrate the 1,000th year of Polish Catholicism in Czestochowa this May are clashing head-on with party nationalists, who want to save the thunder for the millennium of Polish nationhood and protect the Oder-Neisse Line from West German "ecumenism" as well. As a result, Gomulka's government denied a passport to Rome for Stefan Cardinal Wyszyńiski. Hungary is Communism's least oppressive realm, yet the velvet glove of János Kaádár descended heavily last month...
...decision last week, Justice Hugo Black scorned the lower courts' apparent notion "that a woman like Mrs. Surowitz, who is uneducated generally and illiterate in economic matters, could never under any circumstances be a plaintiff in a derivative suit brought in the federal courts to protect her stock interests." Whatever its technicalities, said Black, Rule 23 (b) "was written to further, not defeat, the ends of justice." Added he: "It has now been practically three years since the complaint was filed, and as yet not one of the defendants has even been compelled to admit or deny the wrongdoings...
...sinecure to be purchased. Corruption is so much a companion of nationhood in some countries that it has become an integral part of the fabric of government. When the army took over in Nigeria in January, they found that Finance Minister Okotie-Eboh had arbitrarily raised tariffs to protect his own private shoe factory, and for a price was willing to do the same for others. One Laotian general on a salary of $250 a month supported his family and 32 relatives in style-all in the same house-by letting opium smugglers use army trucks and planes to move...