Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headlines. When a whipping-cane maker lectured at Horsley last fall, teen-age pupils grabbed him and flogged him with one of his own canes (TIME, Dec. 6). Later, Headmaster Robert Copping hit the news by announcing that he was founding a children's union to protect British kids everywhere from their reactionary elders. Last week, bearded Robert Copping was a headline again as a stream of shocked witnesses in the Eccleshall magistrates' court told just how progressive the Copping experiment in "do-as-you-like" education seemed to have...
...Trap. Some organizations are created by the special demands of doing business and producing things in the machine age, e.g., the corporation. Others are caused by man's desire to protect himself against the machine age, e.g., labor unions. To all these, as once to the feudal castles, man owes loyalties...
Rugged Clinton Golden, a former locomotive fireman, a leader of the Steelworkers' Union and veteran of half a dozen Government posts dealing with labor elaborated: "The individual sought refuge in organizations [leagues, associations, societies, lobbies, bureaus, granges, cooperatives, parties] in order to protect his own integrity and to win a place in [his] fluctuating environment. . . The organization appeared ... an instrumentality for good. But after a time, the organization took on a life of its own, with ethics...
Director Reed has brilliantly followed suit. As the emotional tensions mount, it is Felipe who hears, half hears, guesses at and finally misunderstands their meaning. When Mrs. Baines accidentally falls to her death, Felipe is certain that Baines has killed her; his lies to protect his friend all but cost Baines his neck. Ironically, Baines is saved by a piece of evidence that only Felipe knows is worthless...
Damn the Communists. Kirkenes' Finnish neighbors over the line were carefully moved back behind a Soviet "security belt." Some six divisions of the Red army moved up to protect the new border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway...