Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over-turn the Massachusetts law on the grounds that the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug is irrational and arbitrary and that the harsh penalties are cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. He also contended that laws are unnecessary to protect the health and welfare of citizens and that they discriminate unfairly against marijuana users...
...austere defense is not designed to protect urban centers but to preserve the land-based U.S. missile arsenal for a devastating retaliatory strike. That arsenal, consisting of 1,000 Minutemen and 54 Titan Us, is more than double Russia's stockpile of 470 land-based missiles. But London's Institute for Strategic Studies reported last week that the Russians are closing the gap; as for the Chinese, the I.S.S. noted that they have begun test-firing a missile with a 400-mile range...
Windows are tucked into a single shaft at the center of each five-story column of offices and labs. Larger windows, opening out from large "think rooms" at the top of each tower, are hooded to protect them from the savage Colorado sun and 125-m.p.h. spring winds. The building's concrete is mixed with a red rock aggregate quarried from nearby mountains, and the building's surfaces are busnhammered to give them a rough finish. Then, to give the site back to nature, the surrounding mesa top, wherever it has been plowed up, is being resown with...
...while Thieu went around quietly gathering support among the other generals and officers. It was only after an emotional two-day showdown meeting of the ruling military group that Thieu forced Ky to stand aside. Ky's public explanation of what happened is that "I stepped down to protect my country when I saw friction develop between Thieu and me and I thought it would do great damage to the military and the Vietnamese people...
...these secondary sex characteristics?' " Backing up her daughter's testimony, Mrs. George Schaffner, whose husband is an accountant, explained that "we would never have subjected Susan to this terrible ordeal unless we believed in her and the truth of her charges-we took this action to protect other girls in our community." Similarly, Mrs. Henry G. Smith said that she first "feared getting Mr. McNeill in trouble," but then decided that "neither Stephanie nor I wanted him around any more...