Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Buck, the difficulty lies in trying to find a solution which will protect Harvard students without inconveniencing them...
Before and during the Depression, U.S. labor battled bravely and sometimes bloodily to win its rights and correct imbalances. But the victory was so complete that the rights were soon woven into everyday U.S. economic life. Meanwhile, the laws drawn to protect underdog labor came to serve, in big segments of the labor movement as protection for power-hungry and corrupt leaders of top-dog labor. Moreover, labor's leaders, having won their economic battle, failed to work out a philosophy going beyond oldtime A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers' antiquated one-word creed: "More." Armed with special privileges written...
...judge: "Remove that woman at once." A lawyer answered: "It is the mother of Alain Rolland," and no one moved. As Jean Amiel went back to his cell, where he had been reading Milton's Paradise Lost, his wife was escorted out of town by police to protect her from the townspeople. But this was not the end of the affair...
Running the business are a respectable-looking couple fond of saying, "The Diet puts forth a law which claims to protect you girls, but they lie. It's we owners who are really protecting you. Without us you would starve. We're social workers. So work hard. And please don't become too haggard. You're for sale...
...protect Castro, the Forum will not allow more than 6000 people to hear the Premier. The audience will sit on rented chairs in the area between the Field House and the Stadium. Quieting fear that rain might force a last-minute cancellation of the speech, Castro has told the Forum that he will speak in any weather...