Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tactically compelled to cooperate with legislative committees, the academic community has, nevertheless, found new strength within its own bailiwick. The recent action of prominent professors, three of them from Harvard, in professionally boycotting the University of Washington, is an example of the power self-respecting professors still have to protect their freedom from inner attacks, which are far more insidious than Congressional investigations...
...even you see that we need a state-owned pound for cats. Now, the cost isn't really as much as you think. I mean it'll only be a couple of thousand a year. It's worth at least that much to protect our people, don't you think...
Tariff-happy American manufacturers are perfecting new strategy suitable for a cold war and hot nerves. Even where industrialists can no longer point to low foreign wages as a source of unfair competition, they now insist that America must protect itself by barricading its defense fortress with high tariff walls...
Stouffer noted that younger people were more inclined than their elders "to protect the rights of people who hold 'offbeat' ideas." He also observed that persons with more education were similarly more tolerant...
...Sewing Machine. Singer Manufacturing Co. brought out a new miniature sewing machine for children that will do everything big machines do except make zigzag stitches. Called Sewhandy, the machine comes with a special guard to protect children's hands from the needle. Price...