Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken her walk to the Nieuwe Kerk, Juliana will be inaugurated (she will not be crowned, because the truculently democratic Dutch do not like their monarchs actually to wear the crown, which is considered the property of the state, not of the monarch). Juliana will swear to "protect the general and individual freedom . . . the general and individual prosperity ... as it is the duty of a good Queen to do." Then the chairman of the Joint Session of the States-General will, on behalf of the sovereign people, pronounce the proud and wary formula: "By virtue of the Constitution, we accept...
...book, Of Flight and Life (Scribner; $1.50), Lindbergh proposes a religious solution: "When we worship God and live by His spiritual values, the knowledge and infinite complexity of science are channeled by a wisdom beyond human capability . . . Then science gives us the material strength to protect our spiritual values." But Lindbergh's new religion is almost as nationalist as his old pre-Pearl Harbor politics: "For Americans, the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death . . . Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership...
Since India surrounds Hyderabad, Patel and Nehru could probably make good their threat. The Nizam, however, had a counter-threat. A dagger-eyed little man named Kasim Razvi calmly threatened to protect Hyderabad by starting another series of India-wide communal massacres...
...Says Sammy: "They're damned careful to sing it the way we wrote it when we're staring 'em in the face. Lotsa singers don't know the proper phrasing and even lose a rhyme. So we gotta be around to protect our baby." Says Jule: "Nobody's going to improve our songs to death...
...human patients. By the tenth or eleventh day, at least four out of five of the control mice should be paralyzed or dead. But if the patient had polio, at least three out of five of the first group of mice should be alive and scampering; the human material protects them from the virus. If it did not protect them, the patient did not have polio. Said one U.S. investigator: "It's very encouraging . . . but right now it's just a bright idea...