Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Priests were thrown off the public payroll, official visits by public dignitaries to shrines were forbidden, schoolchildren's pilgrimages were stopped. Shrine attendance dropped 50% to 70%; the gods, in failing to protect their country, had lost face. Many shrines had to rent out space to businesses-some even rented their grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token...
Long concerned over the proper preservation of federal documents, the Government felt that it had a good case. These papers, it maintained, had once been Government property. Therefore, the Government was still their owner and had the duty to protect them. But to private collectors across the U.S., the Government's claim on the Lewis and Clark papers had far-reaching implications. If the Government won, did that mean that the National Archives could go around claiming all documents that had once been Government property...
Commissioner Helfand's concern for the health of professional prizefighting did not go far enough for a pretty 23-year-old brunette named Elaine Flores. Mrs. Flores offered to contribute $10,000 toward the formation of an organization to protect the rights of the boxers themselves...
...long before Mr. Molotov's incredible announcement (on June 14, 1941) warnings of a German attack on Russia were being put out by "the forces arrayed against the Soviet Union and the Great German Reich," Indians were fighting and dying alongside British, Australian, French and other comrades to protect Egypt and the Arab world and to set Ethiopia free. An obscure party employee in those days, [Khrushchev] was probably never allowed to know that Stalin did not even acknowledge Mr. Churchill's repeated warnings of the impending Nazi attack. A devout ignoramus today, he would be the last...
...popularity as a singer is nearly as unassailable as that of Bing Crosby. Each Saturday night after the show, a loyal band of bobby-soxers gathers outside his studio. Says Perry: "A couple of these kids try to protect me from the others...