Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims are particularly annoyed by the fact that Laurel's bodyguards protect him from justifiable retaliation...
Though newsmen claim a classic right to protect their sources−and have gone to jail to do so−only twelve states* guarantee it by law, and the Federal Government has no such statute. Judge Sylvester Ryan warned attractive, hard-working Columnist Torre, 33, that she was risking a sentence of 30 days for contempt if she persisted. Sympathetically, the judge called her "the Joan of Arc of her profession." The Trib promptly staked her out on Page One in a blaze of pictures, plastered most of an inside page with sidebars, ran a fat lead editorial sounding...
Bankers and businessmen ticked off the practical problems of tapping new resources in a world already pinched for capital and squeezed by inflation. Managers warned that trained consultants and technicians were in critically short supply. Westerners emphasized the need to protect investors in new lands seething with nationalism. Asians warned that impatient peoples cannot depend on private capital alone to finance the basic developments of industrial society (see Paths of Progress...
...labor subcommittee on remedial legislation, is at work directing a crew of experts who are examining a bookful of possibilities, such as tighter pension and welfare fund rules, strong laws defining conflict-of-interest deals, a federal commission similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that would protect the public interest against corrupt union activities just as SEC clamps down on abuses in business financing. Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan will doubtless offer a series of proposals growing out of his labor-rackets committee investigation...
...preserves the continuity of the community and order despite political or economic or social differences. In the atavistic recesses of virtually every Briton's mind is the real, if irrational, sense that the Queen as a person is there, alert and ready with a cool, restraining hand, to protect him from the excesses of his fellow man. It is a delicate arrangement which must depend on an instinctive confidence between the parties involved. It is to foster and nurture that confidence that Elizabeth's husband has dedicated himself...