Word: protected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sneered the Soviet news agency, Tass: "[New York papers] seek to present the attack as usual for the New York way of life. However . . . the attempt was of a political character. . . ." Snarled Ukrainian Chief Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky: "Political banditry. . . . If the authorities cannot protect us, either it will be necessary to have our own agents . . . or maybe to pay income tax to somebody like Al Capone for protection. . . ." In a bristly letter to Secretary of State Byrnes, Manuilsky charged a "premeditated attempt" on the two men's lives...
...testimony. But not all. The Government hustled New York Daily Worker Correspondent John Pittman to a radio microphone to give his view. Gushed Pittman: "Millions of American Negroes and peasants would be glad to get a chance to go to the polls and have police and soldiers protect them." At a post-election press conference, U.S. and British newsmen questioned Premier Groza mercilessly about the excesses they had witnessed. When a Pravda correspondent finally got a chance, he asked the Premier a question that was a perfect illustration of the abyss in thinking between East and West. The question...
Across the plains, ranchers and cowhands tied bandannas under their Stetsons to protect their ears, pulled on sheepskins and mittens, and began a desperate rescue operation. Horses were helpless in the drifts. Trucks were useless except on cleared roads. But a caterpillar tractor with a bulldozer blade was worth its weight in gold...
...when overpriced cotton first started to fall, it caught the hordes of little speculators with no spare cash to protect their holdings. They were ruthlessly sold out by cotton brokers, and this, according to some cotton men, caused the second drop last week. A Memphis cotton man explained: "It's like a crap game-if you get caught, you have...
Many a grower, who feared that a bad crash in cotton might still be ahead, began mumbling ephus-iphus-ophus, a meaningless phrase that Southern crapshooters use while making a critical roll. Many a worried millowner and converter, hedging to protect heavy inventories of high-priced cotton, helped cotton down by feverishly selling futures...