Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Valley, Ford again asked for a change in plans, to hover over Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. His aide, Jack Marsh, a Virginian and amateur historian, urged the President to swoop across the river and study Fort Washington, a stone redoubt built between 1814 and 1824 to protect the capital. As the chopper went on, Ford viewed the steeple of Christ Church where Washington had worshiped, still tall and proud along the parkway. Nearing the White House, Ford turned to his companions. "Did you get the same feeling as I got this weekend?" he asked. He answered...
...protect Simants from prejudicial publicity - including a report that he had confessed - the trial judge banned full news coverage until a jury could be impaneled. The state supreme court eventually agreed that reporters could not use Simants' confession or any other fact "strongly implicative" of his guilt before his trial began...
...domestic animals, they pump it out of the veins of our cattle and our horses at their leisure and under our very eyes. If they choose to take up their abode with us, we cannot wholly keep them out of the houses we live in. We cannot even protect our very persons from their annoying and pestiferous attacks, and since the world began, we have never yet exterminated?we probably shall never exterminate?so much as a single insect species...
...investment advisers and 1,300 investment companies. Though the SEC's traditional concern is to stop fraudulent or manipulative stock transactions, Sporkin has also interpreted his mandate to include forcing companies to disclose the facts about bribes, kickbacks and illegal political payoffs. If that view of how to protect stockholder interests causes complaints-and it does-Sporkin has the almost missionary morality not to mind...
...buildings are being modernized, and a glass enclosure is being erected to protect outdoor stalls. The Faneuil Hall Marketplace is scheduled to open in late August, and its future looks promising. The lower floors are rented out to merchants and restaurateurs, the upper ones to lawyers and architects. Like neighboring refurbished buildings, the market has a special zest, one that will help make the waterfront a place worth the trip-or the move-to downtown Boston...