Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along Dorchester Street, a four-lane thoroughfare that is the main artery of South Boston, the center of opposition to forced busing. With feelings running high over the busing order, "Southie" swarmed with police, including 300 members of the elite Tactical Patrol Force brought in to disperse crowds and protect the buses bringing black students to the area's previously all-white schools...
Trouble broke out the next day in predominantly black Roxbury. Black students roamed the streets, stoning cars and throwing rocks at the few white pedestrians. A white cab driver was hospitalized. Police let only black drivers into the area. "We just don't have enough men to protect you," a deputy police superintendent told white reporters. "Don't look left or right. Just keep driving until you get to the suburbs...
...should any public funds be used to protect Nixon? A Justice Department spokesman said that it has been "common practice" for federal officials to be so defended, lest they shun their official duties out of fear of future suits...
...genuine needs and good intentions of the time that brought them into being, the commissions have often become barnacled over the years. At times they seem more concerned with the interests of their industries than those of the public: rigging rates to protect even the most inefficient operators, discouraging new participants in a field and, worst of all, keeping consumer prices unnaturally high...
Hours after Hurricane Fifi slammed into Honduras, a crew met at a New Windsor, Md., warehouse and assembled 1,000 Ibs. of children's clothing, 3,000 blankets, and enough water-purification tablets and drugs to protect a good-sized city against epidemic. The goods were airlifted at once to Miami, then flown to Honduras...