Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have shown, Irving explained later, that the local's net worth was a handsome $204,000), Baldwin's boys rushed upstairs. In the stifling room, bedlam broke loose. Men seized chairs, smashed them over the heads of their opponents. Knives flashed. One member leaped to protect Irving, was deeply slashed for his pains. Before the police arrived, 25 men had been cut. "We'll get you at the next meeting," yelled one man as Irving was escorted out by police. There would not be another meeting, retorted "Two-Cadillac" Irving as he boarded a plane back...
Buckshot for a Juke Joint. The sheriff let himself down on the steps and talked softly. "You know that when you elected me, I was sworn to uphold the law," he said. "And I have to protect my prisoners." Anyway, he added, the prisoners had been rushed off to another jail for safekeeping. (A third suspect was in the jail at the time, but was sneaked off later...
...Claude Heman Barlow, 72, one of the world's leading authorities on schistosomiasis, had collected the snails in Egypt's labyrinthine irrigation ditches. An expert in Egypt's ministry of public health, he deliberately caught the disease in 1944 during experiments to protect the U.S. against infestation by returning servicemen. The only effective cure for him was injections of tartar emetic, which left him nauseated for eight months...
...once wrote, "I never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...
...have agreed on orthodox ways of living and thinking, and who make it their chief concern to see that everyone follows them without a quibble. They stand ready to punish the unorthodox with varying degrees of severity, and continually join battle with any cases of non-conformity which protect and nourish the rebels. The most important sanctuaries for unorthodoxy are the colleges and universities, and in the past few years, many of them have been cocreed and frightened into obedience...