Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advice of his counsel, Daniel Pollitt, Singer also used the Fifth Amendment to protect both himself and others is the group. His use of the amendment to protect others is considered a unique interpretation, and will probably be debated when the trial begins...
...neighboring Iraq, on the first visit of a Turkish head of state to Baghdad since Iraq freed itself of the Ottomans in 1918. He got a royal welcome. Menderes' mission: to persuade Iraq to join its fellow Moslems in the U.S.-blessed Turkish-Pakistan defense pact, designed to protect the Middle East's "northern tier" from Russia (TIME, March 1). Iraq already has long standing commercial and diplomatic ties with Britain, and two large R.A.F. bases...
...harvest is only half the job. Year round company foresters roam the woods to protect the crops against disease and fire, spray insecticides to kill off such enemies as the pine beetle and the spruce budworm, which can destroy masses of trees. If fire has cleaned out all mature, seed-bearing trees, the timbermen do their own planting. In six years Crown Zellerbach seeded nearly 30,000 acres of barren land, gave away more than 1,000,000 seedlings to 4-H clubs and others for planting...
Curry's proposal resulted from a survey made by the Cambridge Police and Traffic Board, which revealed that the "safety islands" designed to protect passengers leaving a street car have caused 98 accidents during the past two years. His plan called for the use of buses on Massachusetts Avenue from Harvard Square to Arlington, thus eliminating the islands...
Another important reason for the high cost of insurance is that each insurance company works out its own mortality table, builds in one safeguard after another to pile up a massive reserve to protect itself against "catastrophes" and meet legal requirements. The mutual companies (i.e., policyholders participate in profits), which sell 70% of U.S. life insurance, pay out surplus earnings as "dividends" to policyholders. But to the policyholder, an insurance "dividend" is actually no earning. Says Northwestern Mutual Vice President Robert E. Dineen: "In our business a dividend is actually the return of an overcharge, and to that extent...