Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filled the pitcher from the hotel's regular water supply, that no one came near him in the elevator or corridors as he took the pitcher to the Governor's room. Louisville police ridiculed it all. An "ice water guard and food inspector" was appointed to "protect" Senator Barkley. At a big Barkley rally last Week in Louisville, a monster pitcher of ice water was placed on the speaker's table. Interrupting his address dramatically, Mr. Barkley pointed at the pitcher and cried: "Has it been tested...
...McGovern. Mr. McGovern demanded that His Majesty's Government take steps to secure the release from Moscow and Leningrad jails of twelve Indian Communists arrested by Stalin police on charges of Trotskyism. Mr. Gallacher interjected to call Mr. McGovern "a converted revolutionary who now pleads with Capitalism to protect criminals!" Mr. McGovern retorted by calling Mr. Gallacher "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he dare not stand up and defend British subjects!" After some further parliamentary billingsgate, the matter was left to the British Embassy in Moscow. Most prominent of the twelve Indians arrested...
...that Japan has her hands full in China France, concerned for the safety of Indo-China, is evidently changing her original policy of trying to protect her eastern empire by currying favor with the Japanese. Consequently, in frequent brushes in Japanese-occupied Peking and Shanghai, the French have stood up to the Japanese much more firmly than the representatives of the U. S. and Britain. Fortnight ago the French again pulled Japan's nose. Last February an agreement was reached tending to facilitate payment of French commercial credits owed by Japan. Recently French creditors informed the French Foreign Office...
...London the much respected Times blared forth against him: "It is impossible to expect an early termination of this tragic state while the Mufti is using French-mandated territory for his operations. . . . Meanwhile, young Jews, with their patience exhausted and with the obvious inability of the British to protect them, are having a fling at their Arab enemies! cost them what...
According to his theory, injury to any part of the body also injures local nerves and sends messages of pain to the brain to protect the injured part. The brain sends messages down the spinal cord to nerves of the muscles at the site of injury. A hurt fist will clench, a face twist, a foot limp. These messages may accumulate if the injury is very great or persistent. This accumulation of nerve impulses may itself irritate nerves, causing useless and damaging excess pain...