Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final words-the message of Cardinal Schuster himself, who sat a few feet away tightly clasping his cross: "It is the duty of every right-thinking man to support the Government in its difficult struggle. . . . Let the Milanese be worthy followers of their patron St. Ambrose. May St. Ambrose protect Milan...
...facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted a "day" to him. Latvian churches prized his ikons. His paintings hung in 25 countries. League of Nations committees solemnly discussed his "Banner of Peace" (a red circle enclosing three red spheres on a field of white), which would protect religious and cultural buildings from attack in future wars...
...tomb was the body of a young man lying beside the girl. He had been killed by a blow that crushed his skull. Perhaps he was a servant, or a warrior sent to protect her on her journey. The Soviet diggers favored a more colorful theory. Around the young man's face was tied a false beard. Perhaps, the fanciful diggers conjectured, an older, more powerful man had sworn to follow the girl over the frontier of death. Thinking better of it when the time came, he killed a youth and disguised his stand-in with a beard...
Something for the Family. Big Ed insisted that he had not been gambling. He had merely taken a wise and legitimate way to "protect my family" against the declining value of the dollar. Was he profiteering in human misery? "Never," cried Pauley. "Making investments is the better way to put it. ... I am a free trader. ... I have been in the market for years-in real estate, rubber, oil, everything in which business judgment could make a profit, in the good old American...
...Jewish side, part of the underground army Haganah came out into the open to protect Jews from Arab attacks. (This week, near Tel Aviv, Arabs in ambush killed the Haganah district commander, Joshua Globerman.) Jews set up twelve recruiting centers in Palestine. Increased immigration (present limit fixed by the British: 1,500 a month) would increase Jewish strength. The British government considered transferring 16,000 Jews to Palestine from Cyprus before Feb. 1, admitting 10,000 Jews a month to Palestine thereafter. U.S. officials in Germany, Austria and Italy began planning the movement of 6,250 Jewish D.P.s a month...