Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been higher but for the consummate skill of the MEDEVAC pilots. During one recent battle, Bloomquist found himself swooping in behind four fighter-bombers to pick up seven wounded Americans. Suddenly one of the escorting Skyraiders burst into flames from a ground hit, and its partners peeled away to protect it. All alone, Bloomquist's chopper-call sign "Dust-off 174"-touched down amid wither ing crossfire from Viet Cong .50-cal. machine guns. Bloomquist ordered his crew to load the wounded, calmly polished his sunglasses, then rotated out in a hail of tracers...
...afternoons to watch the surfers. Said Police Chief James Grantham: "There hasn't been a single problem. If I were younger, I'd be out there myself." Up and down the coast, towns have roped off prime sections of beach for the "belly boards," not only to protect swimmers but also to encourage the trade the surfers bring...
...usually purchased by corporations at bulk rates. Dr. Benjamin Spock's child-care books, used widely by drug and food companies, head the giveaway bestseller list-business has distributed more than a million so far. The most popular current titles include the R.C.A.F. exercises and How to Protect Yourself on the Streets and in Your Home, an insurance-company favorite. Publishers have also begun commissioning new books specifically for corporate clients. More than 200,000 copies of Benjamin's Coffee Cookbook, written for General Foods' Maxwell House Division, have been grabbed up. Special books have been written...
SPECIALISTS in every field from cardiology to television develop their own trade jargon. Newsmen writing about those specialties must learn the lingo-in order to pass it along to the reader with appropriate translation or, perhaps more often, to protect the reader from it. Spacemen, of course, have their own jargon too. In doing the basic reporting for this week's cover story (see THE NATION), Houston Bureau Chief Ben Cate picked up some of the newer entries in the space vocabulary...
...practices of the dominant com pany in a German combine damage the profits of a subsidiary company, the dominant company will have to protect the subsidiary's stockholders by guaranteeing them a fixed dividend or reimbursing them with stock or cash...