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Word: protection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Testing weapons systems instead of isolated "nuclear devices" is one of the announced purposes of the U.S. tests at Bikini. One of the systems that needs testing most is the atom-armed antimissile rocket that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are believed to be developing. To protect a target city from a long-range missile, this weapon must attack its quarry high above the atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twenty-Two Miles High | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...have read with interest your article on Avery Dulles [June 11] and have been enlightened in some respects, if not in others. As I understand it, the Legion of Decency is trying not only to protect its own interests, but that of all the American people. Perhaps they would like to have absolute control of business so that our minds may not be poisoned by films, books, or any other medium of communication that is not in sympathy with the Catholic clergy's ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...Blasted out of the House Rules Committee for House consideration the Administration's civil-rights bill to: 1) set up a Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department; 2) establish a bipartisan commission to investigate civil-rights violations; 3) permit the Attorney General to take civil action to protect voting rights. The bill, after weeks of delaying tactics by Southern Democrats, was forced out of committee by a group of Republicans and Northern Democrats led by Missouri's Dick Boiling in an 8-3 vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work Done | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...food, triumphantly proved that it made them miserably sick. In The Jungle, Muckraker Upton Sinclair rubbed the nation's nose in the filth of Chicago packing plants. On June 30, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt rode to the Capitol and ceremoniously signed the first U.S. Food and Drugs Act, to protect the people's stomach from willful or careless poisoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: There Ought to Be a Law | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...past flights of overage British Vampires and Meteors. Every Arab state but Iraq had sent contingents to swell the show, and Cairo's Al Ahram proudly called it a display of "the glory of Arabism represented by the strength of the united Arab nation, whose united army will protect the Arab nation against imperialism and Zionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Moment of Victory | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

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