Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particular truckload of whisky. So I mentioned it to Mr. Beck. And Mr. Beck says, 'Well, you see what I mean, Levine, you don't get along very good with the members of Local 174, and my family is stockholders in your company. We have got to protect our interest...
...Loyal Texan? Though the student president and vice president tried to excuse the university administration by insisting that its motive was merely to protect Barbara, the student assembly met to "reaffirm its belief that all bona fide students should be given an equal opportunity to participate in campus activities." The presidents of the two leading service organizations, the Cowboys and the Silver Spurs, recommended that students boycott the opera. "We wonder," said the presidents, "if, in order to qualify as one of Representative Chapman's 'loyal Texans,' we must abandon our religious heritage as Christians and Jews...
...coming to terms with the Reds. Wyszynski's cool reception was deliberately planned for two reasons: 1) to show that agreements with Communist governments, even when favorable to the church, are nothing to be endorsed eagerly, or for any reason but strict necessity; 2) to protect Wyszynski himself against the propaganda charge that he is a favored tool of the Vatican. Reported one Vatican correspondent: "If the Polish Communists or the Russians ever ask Wyszynski to persuade the Vatican to any particular course of action, Wyszynski might well reply: 'Go tell it to the Roman fire brigade...
...grandiosely designated Committee to Safeguard Individual Rights and Liberties. A week earlier another committee, appointed by the Radical Socialist Party for a similar purpose, had thought better of going to Algeria when Minister Resident Robert Lacoste warned that he would be forced to employ thousands of police to protect them from the French colons...
...dozens of experimental products. They have colorless crayons that make marks only on prepared paper (nice for the kids and the wallpaper). Capsules can be made light-sensitive so that they form a photographic image. They can be magnetized and polarized. Unstable drugs and vitamins can be encapsulated to protect them from air and moisture. Tissue paper impregnated with perfume-filled capsules has no odor until it is rubbed gently on the skin...