Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...river, lay the Communist armies. The Amethyst, with a 17-ft. Union Jack painted on each side of her grey steel hull, plowed the yellow-silted waters with assurance, a frail symbol of waning Western power in China. The Amethyst was to stand by the Chinese capital to protect British citizens. She never made...
...original Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction days," the ad said, "was an organization of heroes [which] served to protect life and property at a time when there was a complete breakdown of decent government. That condition does not now exist ... In our opinion, we do not need an organization which operates in concealment and ... is destructive to our democratic way of life...
Harvard "has not at any time made any protect to the Church" concerning Fr. Feeney's teachings. Dean Bonder asserted last night...
...Society is acting to protect itself as well as to tip off Yardlings, Tilly explained, because it is difficult even now for a concentrator to consult with a faculty member...
...Petersburg, Fla., slight, dapper James Earl Webb, 49, operates what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first...