Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thanks. I'll stay here, study, and protect the Christmas spirit...
Proust is gone. Hemingway reaches down, grabs one of the rods by its tip and pulls it to the roof. He jerks once to set the hook, then with slow, graceful movements he pumps the rod back, reels a few feet, pumps, reels. To protect his back, he lets his arms and one leg do the work. By the shivery feel on the line he can identify the catch. "Bonito," he tells Gregorio. "Good bonito." With smooth speed, he works the fish close to the stern. Gregorio grabs the wire leader and boats a blue-and-silver bonito of about...
...core of the Government's massive case was that the Du Ponts had bought stock in General Motors and U.S. Rubber to assure markets for their own products. The Du Ponts defense: they had bought the stock purely as an investment. To protect their original G.M. investment they were forced to pour millions more into the company in the early '205, and run it, after G.M. Founder William C. Durant's enormous stock-market losses threatened to ruin him and G.M. alike. At the time, the Du Pont total investment was some $80 million; its holdings...
Milk controls were born during the Depression, when farmers were forced to sell milk for as little as 1? a quart. In all, 26 states passed laws to protect farmers and bottlers. Some later junked the laws, but 16 states still maintain strict controls. In addition, federal controls can be applied if a majority of the milk producers in an area petition for them. As a result, three of every four U.S. citizens drink price-controlled milk...
...Schell). Their raptures are brief. The heat, the secrecy, the difference in their ages, the knowing that they can never marry-all these things tell on their nerves. In the end, blackmailed by the villain, who has intercepted a love letter, Scobie is driven to crime in order to protect his wife from the knowledge that he loves another. And haunting him every moment is the sense that two women now, not just one, hold him to blame, as Scobie blames himself, for their unhappiness. A crime against Heaven, added to his crimes against men, seals Scobie's fate...