Word: protected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hygiene Department has reasons, if not justification, for its policy. The compulsory fee is a form of insurance and a large number of individuals must contribute to the kitty so that its operation may conform to the law of averages. The University feels obligated to protect the health of every student whether he come from far or near. Perhaps those who must pay their "protection" fee without expecting ever to benefit by a single nickel's worth of medical services would feel less defrauded if they could know that their contribution helped guarantee every Harvard student the best and most...
Midnight Taxes. The Nationalists did hold the major cities and rail lines of North China. But the Communists ruled the countryside. They had the best chance to gather North China's summer crops. The Government could not even protect at night some of the villages it controlled by day. Near Peiping last week, a 70-year-old Chinese farmer complained that the Communists had come by night, three times in the past month, to collect "taxes." Had he reported this? "Heavens, no," said the old man, "the Communists would cut my throat the next night...
...Universal -lnternational) is a tight, bright melodrama about a poor but fairly honest lawyer (Edmond O'Brien) who hires on to protect a suave capitalist (Vincent Price), and soon finds he is being had for a patsy. The young lawyer is tricked into killing the capitalist's ex-partner (Fritz Lieber) in apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder...
...imminent return to power, after the new Government's inevitable flop. Cried pro-Communist Socialist Pietro Nenni: "What goes out the window will come in the door." That was a clear cue for the U.S. not to let the new Government flop; it might be difficult to protect Ministers who are as inept as they are well-meaning...
Haggling & Tempting. To protect the stomachs of modern readers, Todd reproduces only details of Fuseli's more obscene drawings, made for private consumption. The elaborately coiffeured heads of his procuresses and whores, haggling and tempting, and Fuseli's needle-sharp "domestic" caricatures show him to have been a better draftsman than painter...