Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plus one, it became clear that the invasion force was desperately pinned down on the beach by unexpectedly stiff fire and Castro air attacks. Then, in a post-midnight meeting, Kennedy, as Sorensen says, "agreed finally that unmarked Navy jets could protect the B-26s when they provided the cover the next morning." Schlesinger elaborates a bit: the President authorized "a flight of six unmarked jets from the Carrier Essex over the invasion area . . . Their mission would be to cover a new B-26 attack from Nicaragua. They were not to seek air combat or ground targets, but could defend...
...assistant managing editor of Hearst's New York Journal-American, James D. Horan has spent much of his 35-year newspaper career as an investigative reporter or "digger." In this labyrinthine novel, he describes the city's seamy side vividly, if repetitiously: the sticky-fingered cops who protect the numbers racket; the Mafia-type Italians in East Harlem who run it, along with sundry other unsavory businesses; and bought judges who sanction it all. With other specimens of the "inside" novel genre, this one has several characters whose real-life models are familiar -the rabble-rousing, white-hating...
...better to fight in Viet Nam-on China's doorstep-than fight some years hence in Hawaii, on our own frontiers." The same day Baldwin's piece appeared, the Times issued a rebuttal: "Such an approach discards any pretense that our objective in Viet Nam is to protect the Vietnamese people...
...only is it just that one should not be convicted of a crime if he selflessly attempts to protect the victim of an apparently unjustified assault," said the court, "but how else can we encourage bystanders to go to the aid of another who is being subjected to an assault...
...liquor shortage. In ten days the saloons will be bone dry unless a wagon train can get through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields her lady crusaders and Colonel Burt Lancaster must deploy more horse soldiers to keep the girls...