Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provides an example. Beneath the figure of God, the bodies of Job's friends bend, and their backs and the long, curved lines of the whirlwind form a rhythm of line which focuses the eye on the divine figure. His outstretched arms and stern face at once accuse and protect. The deep blue of the sky highlights the figures and at the same time expresses the mystery and fearfulness of heaven, while the whirling lines intensify the movement. But though the colors are forceful and appropriate, it is Blake's drawing that gives to the paintings a supernatural greatness...
...Alice Hamilton, 78, longtime industrial health expert in the U.S. Department of Labor (now retired); for her lifelong crusade to protect U.S. workers against industrial poisoning hazards (silicosis, carbon monoxide...
...borrowed it). He was briskly hauled off to the station house. Eventually delivered into the strong hands of an older brother, the student Prince had his pockets stuffed with extra socks, two pennies, and a $1.50 hunting knife, which he had taken along to protect himself from Wild West desperadoes...
...delegation, cited a more accurate and less happy figure. "A recent survey," he said, "revealed that one out of three people in the U.S. still does not know what the United Nations is or what it does." He also called upon the U.N. General Assembly to devise means to protect the Greek people from Communist aggression. But he left them free to figure out how this is to be done...
...peacetime uses of atomic energy are coming, if civilization survives at all. But . . . due precautions must be taken against possible mutational effects. . . . With [greater] use of atomic power . . . the problem of disposing of the radioactive byproducts . . . becomes more and more general. . . . The simple lead screens which suffice to protect people's reproductive organs from X rays are quite inadequate. . . . The immediate effects of small exposures may be quite invisible, and the mutational effects are so remote that there will be a strong temptation ... to disregard them. Yet these tiny effects, as regards mutation, are cumulative over an indefinite period...