Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with him on the executive council that is preparing the way for Smith's concept of black rule in Rhodesia. The two leaders had a two-hour session with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance; as they left the State Department surrounded by Secret Service agents to protect them from placard-waving demonstrators, Smith grimly characterized the meeting as a sparring session in which there was nothing more than "a repetition of old ideas." In a pointed rebuff, Vance did not even bother to escort Smith from the State Department building as he customarily does with visiting dignitaries...
...Square, Wu made a serious mistake. The mayor branded Teng a "capitalist roader," one of the worst insults in the Communist Chinese lexicon. After Teng made his sensational second comeback some 15 months ago, even attempts to save Wu by some key Politburo leaders failed to protect the mayor from the Vice Premier's vengeance...
...socialite (Bette Davis) and her bitchy companion (Maggie Smith) have set out for the same cruise, as have the novelist Salome Ottoban and her daughter. When Linnet's cheating lawyer (George Kennedy) hears of her marriage, his shady schemes are jeopardized and he sets off for Egypt to protect himself. Ridgeway's English lawyers are watching him, and they dispatch David Niven to the scene. Simultaneously, the Viennese doctor is trying to persuade Ridgeway not to go on trying to ruin his clinic, which has caused her friend to die, and the Marxist and Poirot are on the same boat...
BORN. To Indian parents, whose names were not revealed in order to protect their child from repercussions within their nation's conservative Hindu society; the world's second baby conceived outside the human body, two months after the birth of the first such child, Louise Brown; a girl; in Calcutta. Weight...
Tales might almost be subtitled Heaven Will Not Protect the Working Girl. The young heroine, Marianne (Carol Kane), works in her father's toy-soldier shop. The father (Robert Burr) affiances her to a middle-aged butcher friend (Clarence Felder). She balks at the match, runs off with a feckless horseplayer (John Glover) and eventually winds up doing nude tableaux in a cabaret. At play's end there are several reconciliations, all of them more bitter than sweet...