Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marine Pfc. Thomas Pratt escaped in disguise through a rear door of the chapel while SDS students and members of the resistance planned to protect Pratt and the other servicemen in sanctuary by surrounding them with a human wall...
After Pratt's disappearance a crowd of about 1000 gathered outside the chapel. Resistance members chained doors at the rear and sides of the chapel to keep out police and protect the remaining resister...
...abroad, the opening portion of his speech belies his intention--or ability--to meet that need. Humphrey justified the policies of the past four years with the frayed phrases of the domino theory. By its stand, he argued, the U.S. has permitted other sappling nations in Southeast Asia to protect themselves against the communist menace. In addition, we cannot withdraw unilaterally because such action would open Southeast Asia to "more violence... more aggression... more instability." If the Vice-President still sees unrest in Southeast Asia simply as the march of aggressive communism, he is a long way from a realistic...
...date shows that such crowds [of demonstrators] can be controlled without denying rights of speech and assembly," he said. "Above all, such crowds can be controlled without excessive force and violence by police. Of all violence, police violence in excess of authority is the most dangerous. For who will protect the public when the police violate...
...long been troubled by the challenge of great writers. When Tolstoy spoke out against famine or religious persecution in 19th century Russia, his voice so carried around the world that the czars took heed. In the early years of Communist rule, Maxim Gorky wielded his renown to save and protect people, until he died a mysterious death probably arranged by Stalin. Boris Pasternak constituted an invisible government that the regime could never quite overthrow. Khrushchev could make Pasternak give up his Nobel Prize, but no one could erase the protest he raised in his masterwork, Doctor Zhivago: "They only...