Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toohey also warned that bursar's cards taken from students at disturbances Friday night would not be returned by Saturday afternoon, so that those students would be unable to use their free tickets for the game. "We are all working together to protect our students," Toohey said...
...Election Day Eisenhower finally persuaded Britain and France to listen to the U.N. and order a cease-fire in Egypt (he made it clear in the process that the U.S. would not feel compelled to protect British-French forces in Egypt from Soviet attack). Next day he sent a bristling message to Israel's electric-haired Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who had accepted a cease-fire but stalled on withdrawing his troops from conquered Egyptian soil. Sternly the President reminded Ben-Gurion of "the various elements of our policy of support to Israel in so many ways...
...Eden's first announced purpose in invading Egypt was to 1) keep the belligerents apart, 2) protect Suez shipping from the threat of Israeli invasion. In fact...
...three weeks the governors of the Toronto Stock Exchange had been investigating the gyrations in the stock of a little steel company named Chatco Steel Products Ltd. Last week the exchange ordered trading in the stock stopped "to protect the interests of American investors"-supposedly the small, unknowing investors who had bought the shares through high-pressure salesmen in the U.S. But this was only part of the story...
...surprising fact was that the ban on trading had not been necessary to protect the unknowing American investors. Few, if any, of them had lost money on the stock. In fact, they could have made a lot. Those who had lost money-and stood to lose a great deal more-were the hardeyed professional speculators on Toronto's Bay Street who had committed one of the mortal sins of speculation: they had been "caught short" in Chatco stock. They had sold thousands of shares of the stock in hopes that it would fall and they could pick...