Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Volunteers decorated the one-time Boy Scout room with flashing lights and sheets of paper inviting creative doodling. An American flag hangs in the door way. One sign asks visitors to remove their shoes to protect the floor while another warns "No alcohol, no illegal substances, no sexual intercourse...
...responsibility of government to protect the citizen against the hazards of the technological environment is obviously most clear when those hazards arise from technology introduced by the government itself, for example, in the case of the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere. Similarly, it is not to be avoided with respect to activities that in their nature require a high order of public regulation and surveillance. Hence, traffic safety has been a matter of public concern almost from the first appearance of the automobile. In their nature, automobiles have required the use of (and eventually the construction...
...committee also resolved to investigate possibilities of obtaining occupational deferments for physics students and outlined many things a sympathetic faculty could do to protect draft-eligible students, including granting them teaching and research assistant posts...
...Club" continued to protect Philby, even when, in 1962, his subversion could no longer be denied. Rather than haul him in to confess, S.I.S. sent a longtime colleague to confront him, informally, with his sins-"a sporting way" to "allow Kim to run for it." Contends le Carré: "The Establishment is shown to have behaved with grotesque ineptitude. It is arguable that Kim Philby, spiteful, vain and murderous as he was, was the spy and catalyst whom the Establishment deserved...
Crease. The 4-ft. by 8-ft. rectangle in front of each goal that is off limits to all attacking players unless the puck is already in the area. The crease is designed to protect the goalie from constant screening or being driven into the net by the offense's interference...