Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forthwith, Britain struck back. It instructed British aircraft to shoot down any Israeli planes encountered over Egyptian territory; it dispatched British reinforcements to Transjordan to protect Aquaba, Transjordan's port on the Red Sea and an important link in British communications to Bagdad...
...Romans revived the prewar custom of handing out gifts to the police on Feast of the Epiphany-Jan. 6, the day on which Italian children get their Christmas presents. (The gifts are brought by Befana, a green-shawled lady who travels on a broomstick and wears dark spectacles to protect her eyes when she dives down chimneys.) Last week, Roman drivers halted their cars to hand over their presents to "off-duty" policemen who were especially stationed for this purpose next to the regular ones...
...foreigners. New phrases which sounded like U.S. factory slogans urged workers to "study technique and raise production efficiency, cherish your implements and save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that production may be increased." Within Communist ranks, leaders announced "self-examination conferences" for "correction of leftist tendencies...
...meeting were closed or not. And even if he cared, the Council's primary obligation was to the student body, and not to the man it was about to impeach. Of course, nothing should have been done to hurt Fisher unnecessarily, but the Council had no right to protect him--if you call it "protection" to keep Fisher's own case foggy along with everything else--at the expense of its obligation to the student body...
Elevator operators have their ups and downs, but Leo Shean, night watchman at Lamont for the last year and a half, has had a never-ending struggle to protect the library from the curious. It's been a real challenge...