Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Klan was started, as you said [April 9], 100 years ago but, heaven knows, not as a social club for bored Southern gentry. It was formed by leading members of the Southern communities to protect their women and homes from Reconstruction carpetbagger thugs and freed Negroes. Many Negroes returned to their homes or sought work with others, but there were many who, spurred on by crooked politicians and lawmen, raped, robbed and generally browbeat decent citizens. I am a descendant of one of the original Klansmen and have heard of these things all my life. The decent, law-abiding Negro...
...case after case, the Supreme Court is putting new muscle into the 174-year-old Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Amendments 1 through 8 were long held to protect individuals only against the powers of the Federal Government, but now they are becoming a shield against the states as well. Last week the court raised that shield once more by applying to all state criminal courts the Sixth Amendment guarantee that anyone accused of crime shall "be confronted with the witnesses against...
Harvard, as a charitable institution, a duty to protect the manifestory of its donors," said Cronin in interview yesterday. "We felt," he "that under these unusual it was necessary to bring an of the facts before a court...
...interview yesterday, Hoffmann suggested threatening a city-country partition of South Vietnam, as a means of attaining political leverage. "If we really want to force the North Vietnamese or the Vietcong to negotiate," he said, "we might send in many more troops to protect the cities, leaving the countryside to the Vietcong...
...ever - it's just that they like to be called les académies de billard now. No more spittoons, no more raucous voices. Tables are covered with pink felt, and ladies, bless their well-chalked tips, are taking up the game. Pool halls even hire "knockers" to protect patrons from the hustlers. "Nobody gambles any more," sighs Lassiter. The only thing left is to play other hustlers and get TV to pay the salaries. So there they are, traveling from tournament to tournament, competing for $30,000 in Las Vegas, just like Jack Nicklaus and Arnie Palmer...