Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a boor; it shows that he would subvert constitutional guarantees. To manhandle generals and senators is one thing; to manhandle the law is quite another. McCarthy claimed that federal employees are duty bound to give him information, "even though some little bureaucrat has stamped it 'secret' to protect himself." Either he had a right to make such a claim on the prerogatives of the executive, or he didn't. The Watkins Committee should have made this clear one way or the other...
...ultimate" liberation of Formosa; a few days before, however, the word had been "immediate." For whatever dark reasons, China's Red rulers were for the moment not promising quick victory. Perhaps at Quemoy they had found out what they wanted to know about the U.S. intention to protect Formosa...
...officers whom Premier Diem approached refused; they were loyal to Hinh. Next day Diem sent over two tickets for the Tuesday plane. Hinh barricaded his headquarters, posted tanks to protect its approaches. Diem hastily sent to his home town. Hue in central Annam, for 300 Roman Catholic partisans, had them airlifted to Saigon and had them mount guard on his palace...
...stark stage, British Tenor Peter Pears sang the prologue ("It is a curious story. I have it written in faded ink . . ."). From then on. the plot followed the outlines of the Henry James chiller about a young governess in an English country house who attempts to protect her young charges from the evil doings of a pair of phantoms. The opera's 16 scenes flashed quickly across the stage., building awareness of horror as the red-haired Quint appeared in the tower, the green-face Miss Jessel was seen by the lake, and the ghosts chanted diabolically...
Radioactive Guard. To protect factory workers, Hazatrol Corp. of San Francisco has developed a radioactive leather wristband that stops machines when a careless worker endangers himself. The wristbands are radioactive enough to set off a Geiger counter that controls a safety-stop mechanism. But the radioactivity is too low to harm workers. Installed price of the control mechanism: about...