Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question: If the Rebels come raiding, can the Friends, in all conscience, fight? Mother (Dorothy McGuire) says no, but then she is a prim old bim who says no to everything. Josh Birdwell (Anthony Perkins), the elder son. is otherwise inclined: "Would you stand by while, others die to protect you?'' Father (Gary Cooper) doesn't rightly know his own mind, but this he does allow: "Man's life ain't wuth a hill uh beans, less'n he lives up ta his own conshunce." He lets the boy go fight for his country...
Earlier in the day, Britain and France had set a 12-hour deadline for a halt in the fighting, a deadline which passed at 11:30 (EST) last night. They said they would then send troops to protect the canal and their shipping...
Died. Owen Gould Davis, 82, pudgy, hornrimmed, onetime record-breaking Harvard dashman, who ground out more than 200 melodramas ("You may strike me, Harold Halverton, but there is a God that will protect a woman's honor") and serious plays, won the Pulitzer Prize (1923) with Icebound; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Such control, it is argued, attempts the impossibility of trying to protect the student from the "hazards of freedom" and still train him in "making intelligent choices between policies...
Another member thought it might look as though the members were trying to protect their own posts by creating new jobs, but sixty two and a half said, "Sometimes y'have to be a martyr and suffer the slings and arrows of public opinion...