Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coops & Coups. At 30 Donaldson passed rigorous tests to join the select ranks of postal inspectors-the trusted men who safeguard the mails, protect the public from thefts and frauds, keep the service 99.9% honest. Postal inspection is the oldest and least publicized investigative and crime detection agency of the Government. Thoroughness and cold efficiency are its tenets. Donaldson served as an inspector in Kansas City for 17 years, sometimes as "the guy in the coop." (In large postoffices there are concealed, peep-holed galleries from 'which inspectors watch clerks and sorters suspected of mail thefts...
...area of revelations, trainer Jimmy Cox revealed after the game that Gannon had played the whole season with a pair of injuries, one received in spring practice and the other this summer. In the Brown and Yale games he were painful leg wrappings to protect the injuries which were aggravated whenever Chip did contact work...
...such "drastic measures." He hoped that not all the weapons he requested need be employed, that voluntary measures could turn the trick (particularly under the threat of his club in the closet). But, said the President: "It is apparent that no other methods can safely be counted upon to protect our people from the dangers of excessively high prices and ruinous inflation...
Wrote Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther A. Weigle: "The separation of church and state in this country was intended not to restrict but to emancipate the churches, not to impair but to protect religious faith. ... It does not mean that church and state, being mutually free, may not cooperate with one another. And it does not mean that the state acknowledges no God, or that the state is exempt from the moral law wherewith God sets the bounds of justice for nations as well as for individuals...
...Wittenberg gives short shrift to slovenly reporters who think that they protect themselves by adding "it is alleged" or "it is said" or by quoting anonymous "sources." The law: "Divorcing one's self from a story by attributing it to others is not ... a defense in libel." Authors who preface their novels with the stock disclaimer-"Any resemblance ... is purely coincidental"-are also kidding themselves. Even a novelist who invents a wholly imaginary character can be sued, if a real person proves that the public could reasonably assume that he was being described. Says Wittenberg: "The question...