Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must register as a "British subject." He lives alone in a small cottage among Upper Woodstock's towering elms. He puts down his own pickles, launders his own shirts. He likes to speed parting guests with an ancient Malecite blessing: "May the horns of Wiwilamehkw (wee-willa-menka) protect you and your goods...
Hints for soldiers and sailors: 1) on long marches, they should hook their fingers in the shoulder straps of their packs, continually move hands and elbows, to be sure of good circulation and the ability to handle guns when they reach the front; 2) to protect their eyes from tiny fragments from land mines, they should wear Plexiglas goggles or masks; 3) to avoid the concussion of depth charges, swimming sailors should float on their backs...
...campaign had begun hopefully. British and Indian troops captured Maungdaw, close by the Burma-India border. Patrols moved south, following the west side of the Mayu ridge. Other British columns swung east toward Buthidaung to protect the left flank...
Hunter's Aim. Yet few could doubt that Dr. Shuster's aim was what he said it was: to protect everybody's feelings in a college community of 10,000 hard-working girls. Wisconsin-born President Shuster is no doctrinaire scholar, but a lively example of fair-mindedness. He is a Notre Dame graduate who publicly protested when Notre Dame's 'president tried to clamp university censorship on the off-campus liberal speeches of Associate Professor Francis Elmer McMahon (TIME, Dec. 20). President Shuster wrote his forthcoming book on Germany with Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser...
...protect troops going into areas where the plague bacillus exists, the Army & Navy often give injections of an anti-plague vaccine. As this vaccine is not a perfect protection and wears off in six months, the services rely chiefly on powders and sprays to keep off fleas, and their war on rats which is continuous, plague or no plague. In Suez, the rats have resisted stubbornly...