Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some fond reminiscences of her late big brother: "He was kind to me when father died. He took me to my first opera-Lohengrin. But he made me stick to my studies. When we were children, he would tell me that if anyone was unkind to me he would protect me." Had she ever foreseen Hitler's rise to Führer? "No," said she with a smile. "But he was always a man who knew what he wanted." So saying, she turned back to her typewriter and her memoirs...
...practical bombmaking. Theorists said that spontaneous fission ought to take place, but excellent experimental men in the U.S. were unable for a considerable time to prove that it did. The first to prove it (in 1940) were two young Russians, Flerov and Petrzhak, who did their work (to protect their experiment from the intrusion of cosmic rays) in the depths of Moscow's ornate subway...
...Eastern's Miami employees" would be out of work if a new carrier was added to the route. He gestured feelingly at two rows filled with silent, blue-shirted Eastern employees, who had come up to the hearings on their own hook (according to the pressagents) to ' protect their jobs...
...faithful dogs have one thing in common: almost complete immunity from literary criticism. Who would be rash enough to examine the soft underbelly of Bob, Son of Battle or cock an ear to the corny notes in The Voice of Bugle Ann? The same armor of sentimentality will surely protect Old Yeller. Texas Author Fred Gipson, onetime newsman and veteran of the pulps, has written double insurance into his third novel. Not only is Old Yeller a mongrel of rare courage and devotion; his 14-year-old master, Travis, totes about as much man on his boyish frame...
...American creed "that a society can only be religious if religion and the state are radically separated, and that the state can only be free if society is basically a religious society." The state can favor no one religious group, but at the same time it must "sponsor, protect and favor religious life in general." This unique arrangement is no guarantee of a religion deeper than the church membership figures. "But it is a foundation-both for a religious people and for a free political order. As such it is the greatest achievement of the American political spirit...