Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with local party officials and a brief rest, Berlinguer went over to the late-afternoon rally in the Piazza Risorgimento in the center of town. A mostly partisan crowd of about 7,000 had already assembled in neat rows of wooden chairs, and burly young workers-like those who protect all Communist demonstrations against possible trouble-patrolled the grounds. As Berlinguer mounted the raised blue rostrum in front of the large neo-Romanesque cathedral, the crowd greeted him with a standing ovation...
...best of times. Is Syria's President Hafez Assad in serious trouble because of Lebanon? Israeli intelligence officials, no friends of Assad obviously, predicted that Syria "is on the eve of a coup." Syrian tank units, the Israelis said, had been pulled back to Damascus to protect the President. Palestinians in Beirut, who are also hostile to Assad's regime, insisted that Syrian army officers had been jailed for protesting their government's orders...
Nolen acknowledges that his fellow doctors gave him unusually cordial treatment-possibly, one young resident slyly suggested, because he might write another book. But his special status and posh private room ($154 a day) did not protect him from "screwups." Several times wrong pills were delivered; a blood test meant for him was taken from the patient next door. Once a nurse even forgot to hook up the crucial heart monitor. Nolen's advice to patients: keep aware of the number and variety of prescribed pills, ask why X rays are being ordered and demand explanations of everything...
...suppress unpleasant possibilities. Since when have we advocated censorship? If people are made wary of political attacks we are in danger of compromising our intellectual integrity. And to erode intellectual integrity is to obliterate free discussion. How then will we ever arrive at any truths, and how can we protect ourselves from oppression...
...supports Dan Schorr. We're going to go all the way; there's no question he had the right to get the document, that he had the right to publicize the document, as far as we're concerned...our executives...are I gather, prepared to go to jail to protect sources. The second part of the question is Dan's giving it, or selling it, although I don't think that's the big issue, giving it to the Village Voice without having cleared that with CBS. That's a question that CBS has said will be settled after...