Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
...argument was that the Syrian raid, happening as it did in the midst of Sharett's delicate negotiations with the U.S. State Department, had "wrecked" the chances of getting U.S. arms. Public opinion abroad, argued Sharett, "is a precious moral and political asset which we must reassure and protect." The partisans of militancy, led by Ben-Gurion, also care what the world thinks-but, says Ben-Gurion, "Israel will stand or fall by what is achieved in Israel, not by what is said abroad...
...called home eight Middle East ambassadors for talks. In Jordan, Arab refugees from Palestine, spurred by Egyptian and Saudi Arabian agitators (and also by Communist agents) rioted in the streets and smashed up the U.S. consulate, bringing a protest from John Foster Dulles over Jordan's failure to protect U.S. property...
Seymour Peck, 38, a desk man on the Times Sunday Magazine who joined the paper in 1952, also fought shy of naming onetime Communist associates, while he admitted his own party membership from 1935 to 1949. Like Whitman, he did not claim the refuge of the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against selfincrimination. Peck, a onetime staffer of the now defunct Communist-line New York Compass, simply refused to answer, despite the subcommittee's repeated warnings that he was risking a contempt citation...
...Presidential aspirant listed five main distinctions between the Democratic and Republican parties: Democrats are more united and purposeful on foreign policy; have more interest in farmers; better oppose monopolies and cartels; protect national resources; and are more intent on seeing civil rights guaranteed in security matters...