Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas of New York are being burned systematical!) block by block as frightened resident; move out, slumlords make no move to protect their all but empty-and insured -buildings, and the torches move...
...intervene militarily to protect the canal once Panama is in control...
...consequently have more direct sympathy among Protestants than the IRA does among Catholics, because they are seen as the final guarantors of Protestant ascendance. They have managed to legitimize themselves in the eyes of many by claiming to protect the same "order" the police and army uphold. But, in fact, neither group will tolerate a government that concedes any power to Catholics. If the British government should compromise the Unionist cause, the UDA and UVF can be counted on to react with violence, their professions of "loyalty" and "order" notwithstanding...
...proceeds of her homemade wine. Pilate, in her unkempt and mystical way, is not bound by the conventions that trap ordinary people, so that she has less distance to travel to freedom than the rest of her family. She alone is fertile, loving; she alone will fight to protect her children or repeatedly, to save her nephew. Crazy, gypsy-like Pilate becomes the symbol of life itself...
Qoboza had said when he was here that getting to know Americans would partially protect him from South African repression, and, to some extent at least, his theory seems to have been correct...