Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jersey Insurance Commissioner James Sheeran is right. We need laws to protect us from all proselyting cultists, including the most disgusting fanatics of all−Christian Fundamentalists...
King also had enraged Hoover by criticizing the FBI for not doing more to protect Southern civil rights workers and not hiring more blacks; in 1963, of the FBI's 5,500 agents, only five were blacks.* Says one FBI source: "If you criticized the FBI, Hoover took after you. He'd do anything to destroy the credibility of a critic...
...sleep at night. The guards wear bullet-proof vests and carry shotguns, often discreetly wrapped in brown paper. On the street their coats bulge over hidden hand grenades. They stand guard in front of hotel rooms, communicating by walkie-talkie with their colleagues outside. Trip wires and hidden microphones protect them against surprise attacks by terrorists...
When heavy street fighting forced the Associated Press to abandon its headquarters in Beirut's Kantari district, one staffer left a note pinned to the wall. "Welcome to our guests," it said in flowery Arabic. "We hope our guests will protect the contents of the office because they are a trust in their hands. Thank you." Last week the A.P. reporters returned and found that somebody had left a note underneath the first one. "We are deeply sorry," it said, in equally flowery Arabic, "but we damaged the building because there was a sniper...
...protect these investments Western powers have made every effort to create alternatives to the Soviet-supported MPLA, which they rightly feel would prevent foreign exploitation of Angolan resources if it came to power. President Mobutu of Zaire plays the largest interventionary role. Despite the commitment of all three Angolan factions and the OAU to the territorial integrity of Angola, Mobutu has continuously fomented secessionist tendencies in the oil rich enclave of Cabinda, a fiefdom of Gulf Oil separated from the rest of the country by a piece of Zaire...