Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major concern of ours has been the preparedness of this nation, the ability of this nation to defend itself to deter war - the ability of its soldiers, sail ors and airmen to protect themselves without being straitjacketed or stripped of weapons...
...whistle-stop campaign. In a speech at Lilongwe, 130 miles northwest of Zomba, Banda declared that he would neither resign nor die to please the rebels. "I am a man of God," Banda cried. "The God of the Christians and the Moslems is going to protect me, and I am going to be in Zomba another 20 years...
...that tax-paid bussing of parochial schoolchildren and some public-school released-time programs are permissible because they do not involve the state in the actual teaching or support of religion. The recent ban on public-school prayers drew the line at state-enforced religious exercises in order to protect the country's nonbelievers. The alternative would have been for the Court to pass on every school prayer, thus further secularizing religion. Teaching about religion, if not of religion, is still permitted...
From the 1890s to the 1930s, the Court was so concerned with the welfare of American business that it used the 14th Amendment mainly to protect corporations as "persons," striking down all sorts of state laws regulating business on the grounds that they violated "liberty of contract." New York was forbidden to set a ten-hour day for bakers; out went minimum-wage laws for women...
...crossbows and poisoned arrows, the more than 500,000 montagnards live in the vast "high plateau" that extends across one-third of the country. They are darker and tougher than the lowland Vietnamese, who consider the montagnards racially inferior, and scornfully refer to them as moi, or baboons. To protect them from land-grabbing lowlanders, French colonial administrators in effect made the central highlands a tribal reservation. When the French pulled out in 1954, lowlanders once again drove the montagnards ever deeper into the jungle-and into the arms of the Communist Viet Cong...