Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most critical of Ford's vetoes was his rejection of a strip-mining bill that the House and Senate had been struggling with for the past two years before coming to an agreement on a compromise version last month. Designed to protect Western states from strip mining, the bill required coal companies to restore mined land to its original contours and use, thereby limiting surface mining to areas where such reclamation was possible. Moreover, the bill would have extracted fees from the coal companies (35? per ton for surface mining, 25? per ton for underground mining) to finance restoration...
...principle something like a golf club. (Early in his career Ruth used a massive 52-ounce bat, but this slimmed down as Ruth himself ballooned.) Strategy and tactics changed. A strikeout heretofore had been something of a disgrace--reread "Casey at the Bat." A batter was supposed to protect the plate, get a piece of the ball, as in the cognate game of cricket. In Ruth's case, however, a strikeout was only a momentary, if melodramatic, setback. Protecting the plate declined in importance, along with the sacrifice and the steal. The big hit, the big inning, blossomed...
...something to eat, or a grinding of a private joke down into nothingness, or little comments on little personality characteristics or verbal quirks or whatever of somebody in the group that can go on to the point where you feel that the whole group is working to protect anybody in the group from having any kind of intense contact with anybody else. These groups will sometimes last two years. You have a feeling that by the time people are ready to graduate that they have been kind of held back from the kind of growth and friendship that they might...
...International Press Institute (IPI), the 23-year-old organization founded in Switzerland to protect beleaguered newsmen round the world, has issued its gloomiest annual report. IPI finds the world press in 1974 "under open attack on all fronts...
...days was virtually the same as that observed at the same mountain in 1960-61. But the pattern of ski injuries was greatly changed. In the past, the classic ski injury, the broken ankle, accounted for nearly half of all ski fractures. Now, because of stiff plastic boots that protect the ankles, and bindings that release under bone-breaking tensions, such injuries make up only 16% of the total. "The reduction in leg injuries has been bought at the expense of the arm and torso," the doctors say. Twelve years ago, sprained and broken ribs, arms and shoulders were relatively...