Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accompanied by his wife and his year-old French poodle, Pepe, Dulles headed north to Lake Ontario's Duck Island for his first two-week vacation since joining President Eisenhower's Administration. Duck Island is in Canada, and Dulles has arrangements with the Canadian government that will protect him better than Smith & Wesson No. 242332 from foolish questioners...
...veins and arteries in the giraffes' long necks. To pump blood so high, giraffes' hearts weigh 25 Ibs., 40 times as much as human hearts. The jugular vein is more than an inch in diameter, and is fitted with an intricate system of efficient valves. They apparently protect the giraffe's head from too much blood when its neck is lowered. The hoselike vein also acts as a blood reservoir. It is more or less collapsed when the giraffe's head is up, so that blood can flow into it at comparatively low pressure when...
...Marshall well knew that witnesses might use the Fifth Amendment so as to protect themselves not from criminal prosecution but from social disgrace or other embarrassments. In such instances, he held, the invocation of the Fifth Amendment would be "in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath...
...bomb attack, U.S. cities as far as 190 miles away from the actual explosion could expect a deadly fallout of wind-borne radioactive particles (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week in Madison, Wis., the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory described a new building material called "diffusion board," that can protect against direct contact with radioactive dust...
BICYCLE TARIFFS are going up 50% to protect U.S. manufacturers from foreign competition. With imported bikes grabbing off nearly 40% of the U.S. market, President Eisenhower last week jacked up tariff rates from 7½ to 11¼% on popular, lightweight, large-wheel models, as high as 22½% on other foreign-made bikes. Estimated increase in retail prices to U.S. cyclists: up to $5 a bike. Increase in U.S.-made bike prices: none...