Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carville, isolated in an unhealthy swamp on the Mississippi, 75 miles north of New Orleans, was founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1894 as a lepers' retreat. The Federal Government took it over in 1921. Patients are still called "inmates." Most use fictitious, names, to protect their families. Their outgoing letters are sterilized before mailing. They occupy their time with bicycling, movies, reading, dances, golfing on a small links. They are allowed visitors and two weeks' leave at home each year, but visits home are difficult because lepers may not travel on trains, buses or other common...
...best he can do in some cases is point out reforms. These are high on his list: the need for better federal mediation machinery; the need to discourage industry-wide bargaining (to which "the only answer so far has been Government seizure"); the need to protect individuals and minorities within a union (who are now the victims of "monopolies as vicious as any attempted by the unlamented trusts of a few decades ago"). One way to afford that protection says Joe Ball, is to "outlaw the closed shop...
Rabbi Lipman, who made several visits to Palestine during the war as an Army chaplain, will concentrate on the topic "Haganah: Defense and Resistance." Largest and most moderate of the underground organizations, Haganah, whose name means defense, was organized by the Jewish Agency during the Arab riots to protect the Hebrow settlements...
...Pass. Since atoms were being discussed outside the Atomic Energy Commission, Chairman Alexandre Parodi called an A.E.C. meeting to protect its prerogatives. Bernard Baruch of the U.S. summarized the A.E.C.'s findings to date, repeated the proposals which he had been making all along. For reasons entirely outside the A.E.C. negotiations (possibly including lack of progress in Russian laboratories), the U.S.S.R. was now making the sort of concession that Mr. Baruch had been stubbornly demanding. But the Russians last week were bypassing Baruch, whom they still attack bitterly. Pravda recently printed a cartoon showing the silver-haired elder statesman...
...spray, stood staring out to sea. For there in the darkness, where no land had been before, blinked the thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried to put through a call to Galway, a telephone operator (who didn't know her folklore) gave unwitting confirmation...