Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a night session, the nine Coalitionist Senators walked out, left Popular Democratic Party Senators without a quorum. Muñoz Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here...
...grips he was transferred to a dark river front beat, even tougher. Hooligans learned to respect the man who whirled them casually about his head, crashed them to the pavement, piled them neatly under his knee. Officer Westgate, a thoughtful man, decided that women, too, should be able to protect themselves; specifically that his wife Violet (weight, 114 Ib.) should be able to repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong across the room. "See how easy it is? I'll have no thug beating up my missus." Violet...
...kind of people the world over. The bottom rail was on top not only in Mississippi, but from Los Angeles to New York, from London to Moscow. ... In Russia, Germany and Italy Demos, having slain its aristocrats and intellectuals and realizing its own incompetence to guide or protect itself, had submitted to tyrants. ..." Percy asked himself the question that every worried parent asks: "Should I therefore teach deceit, dishonor, ruthlessness, bestial force to the children in order that they survive?" He answered it as most worried parents do: "Better that they perish." For "virtue is an end in itself...
...reddest rag that can be waved in front of any liberal-to-leftist Canadian is a copy of the stringent Defense of Canada Regulations, drafted to protect the Dominion from subversive activities. Under the Regulations, left-wing papers have been suppressed, more than 1,500 "Communists" and smalltime Fascists have been placed in internment camps without formal trial. Regarded by the Government-as a necessary accessory to Canada's war effort, opponents see the Regulations as a dangerous breach of civil liberties...
...mourning dove has been commoner than the robin in some parts of the U. S. But it is quickly going the way of its late great cousin, the passenger pigeon. Southerners slaughter the birds by the thousands. Stricter hunting laws to protect this vanishing game bird are imminent...