Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with medals earned in three services,*- the handsome sergeant readily admitted killing his friend, and stringing him up on the bannister with the help of his brother. But, he insisted, he had killed only in self-defense. His buddy, he claimed, had threatened him with a gun, and to protect his life, Dunne had used a judo trick learned in the commandos: a slashing blow with the edge of his hand against Watters' larynx. Why, then, had he called in his brother to help fake a suicide? Sudden panic at finding his assailant dead, said Sergeant Emmett-Dunne...
...decline of the theater [June 6] stems not so much from the lack of good plays and good authors as from the growing influence of our noted theater critics, that small and parasitic group of men who feel it is their sacred duty to protect the theatergoer from being exposed to anything but superior spectacles on the legitimate stage . . . I have often wondered why our plays should be so meticulously hand-picked by a small group of intellectual supermen. Through individual tastes we choose our food and manage to survive, and even though not all of us are gourmets...
...would not want this opportunity to pass," he announced, "and . . . appear to give the impression that I subscribe to [McCarthy's] point of view . . . We are not bankrupt in our negotiating power . . . The President [will] do everything possible to protect the vital interests of the country and of the free world [at the Geneva Conference]." Then he urged united support of the President and of the Geneva meeting...
...lawyer, Thurman Arnold, built his arguments on the Fifth Amendment. He said that since Dr. Peters could not confront his informers, he had been denied the right to "due process of law" guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment. The Government answered that it has a need and a right to protect its informants; if it did not do so, the whole security system would break down. It also contended that its firing procedures are administrative acts, not judicial proceedings with legal penalties, and therefore not subject to the due process clause...
...Association that it re-examine Canon 35, with a view toward admitting more photographers to court proceedings. Said the Attorney General: "Courts are constantly faced with [reconciling] freedom of the press with the . . . impartial administration of justice, [and] neither is more important than the other. [Modern] press photography can . . . protect the interests of justice for all concerned...