Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question as Chicago's big week began: Could Adlai ride out the Truman crisis and protect the huge lead he had collected? The answers lay in the abacus mind and the horny fists of his campaign manager, Pennsylvania's Jim Finnegan...
...first acts as an independent nation, the new Moslem-dominated state of Tunisia this week abolished plural marriage (up to four wives at any one time) sanctioned for Moslems by the Koran and by the example of Prophet Mohammed. "These measures have been taken to better protect the home, the base of society," announced Premier Habib Bourguiba, an Arab who has but one wife, a Frenchwoman. He added that girls would no longer be permitted to become child-brides at 14 or less, that youths and girls over 20 need no longer get parental consent to marry, that male Tunisians...
...attack group to do the shooting, a covering force to protect the attack group, and a third group to organize the getaway. The night came, and I went out with the attack group. Everything went according to plan...
...German blitz on London in World War II provided just such an archaeologist's windfall, exposing ancient ruins sealed fof centuries by the close-built modern city. Last week Director William Grimes of the London Museum described the discovery of two blockhouses which the Romans built either to protect Londinium, or to protect themselves from Londinium's people...
...location of the cave is still kept secret to protect it from destructive sightseers. But one honored guest, the Abbe Henri Breuil, dean of French prehistorians, was invited to inspect the find. Although 79 years old, he crept through the cave's winding corridors and examined the animal drawings. He declared them "among the most beautiful specimens of prehistoric art yet discovered," estimated they were late paleolithic, probably between 15,000 and 20,000 years...