Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the committee, drafted by Leader Knowland, started their task with the implicit understanding that Knowland would stand behind them and would help protect them against the inevitable attacks from McCarthy...
...Confession. But from that point on, wrote Phyllis, her husband's attitude changed. "He was afraid to go to sleep at night, and every time I came near him he would instinctively put his arms up to protect his head and face. Sometimes I would wait as long as two months before retaliating, and all the while he would be going crazy wondering at what unexpected moment he would be attacked. Finally he asked for a truce, and I gladly agreed. Since that time, he has never laid a hand upon me or the girls, and our married life...
...local federated fund-raising groups, are our best hope of conquering mankind's leading diseases. They offer the individual the precious sense of participation in something that is vital and dynamic. They create a national awareness of outstanding medical problems. They show the individual how he can protect his own health...
Said Ike: "The most they can do is protect you in what you have for the moment. But we want to progress. We want ... to raise the standards of the people, its spiritual standards, its intellectual standards, and its capacity for happiness . . . and in so doing, raise the standards of the world . . . Only as we do that, can we look toward permanent peace. You can achieve great progress, of course, by successful conferences addressed to particular things, as long as you are strong, know what you want, and don't deviate from what you know to be right...
...order to continue to attract a highly qualified undergraduate body and protect its scholarship program, the administration should maintain its present policy. Yale, however, which has pushed the plan, insists that Harvard and Princeton go along. Operating under a million dollar deficit and an admissions policy that draws 60 percent of its undergraduates from preparatory schools, Yale expects to benefit from the fees. Harvard is neither plagued by so serious deficit worries nor committed to a 60-40 ratio...