Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible that "the ablest students ... are headed for law or medicine" because they realize that we are endangered today by yesterday's science? Maybe they are compelled by conscience to protect and heal the delicate creation that yesterday's scientists probed with freedom, and all the damage that entails. I hope so. Our future depends upon more than the "glory of science...
...contender, Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. After a briefing session for congressional leaders at the White House, Democratic Senator Scoop Jackson of Washington declared: "Restraint is the order of the day." Teddy Kennedy was one who broke ranks; he criticized the Administration for not having a contingency plan to protect Americans at the embassy...
...handful of Marines, for example, were landed in Tripoli in 1801 to punish the Barbary pirates, and a century later some 2,500 American servicemen were rushed to China to help put down the Boxers who had been attacking diplomatic missions in Peking. It was in part to protect American lives that Dwight Eisenhower dispatched Marines to Lebanon in 1958, and Lyndon Johnson sent them to the Dominican Republic in 1965. In Washington's most recent use of force, Gerald Ford ordered U.S. units to retake the merchant ship Mayaguez, which had been seized by Cambodia...
...Hispanics hastened to assure their neighbors that the outcome meant, in Ferre's words, "no Latin takeover." Armando Lacasa, who campaigned successfully for election to the city commission with Spanish-language posters urging PROTECT OUR OWN, nonetheless proclaimed that the commission must offer "a piece of the action to everybody." Still, the election testified to the growing strength of "little Havana," Miami's huge community of Cuban exiles. Hispanics make up 55% of Miami's population and only 31% of the registered voters, but they trooped to the polls in impressive numbers. Miami's non-Hispanics...
...enforcement officials and civil rights leaders are increasingly alarmed about the Klan, but they do not know what to do about it. Because of new federal restrictions designed to protect civil rights, the FBI no longer keeps as close watch on Klan activities as it once did. Says an FBI official: "We now cannot infiltrate them just because they are standing on a street corner and shouting, no matter how violent or antisocial their rhetoric." Other observers are persuaded that Klan strength will decline only when the people who are now attracted to it get a bigger share...