Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect repudiating his testimony given in secret session." Said the Gray board: "His testimony . . . indicated that he failed to appreciate the great impropriety of making statements of one character in a secret session and of a different character for publication, and that he believed the important thing was to protect Dr. Peters' professional status...
...Executive Branch of the Government has the sole and fundamental responsibility under the Constitution for the enforcement of our laws and presidential orders. They include those to protect the security of our nation which were carefully drawn for this purpose...
When Kamal el Malakh finished his peering through the hole in the limestone block, he behaved in the most approved Egyptological manner. He had the hole sealed up to protect the relics inside from air and dust. He posted armed guards to exclude unauthorized antiquarians. Then he went into a huddle with his most learned colleagues. This week he reopened the hole for an hour-and-a-half, gave eight noted Egyptologists and scholars a quick look at the treasure below by the light of an electric bulb on the end of a stick...
...Stay for the Siege." Last March 26 Genevieve de Galard wrote a letter to her mother, the Vicomtesse de Galard Terraube, in Paris: "There is no reason why anything should happen to me . . . but I am about to leave for Dienbienphu. I am sure God will protect me, and the poor soldiers who are waiting to be evacuated surely deserve that every effort should be made to get them out." At 3 a.m. next morning she landed at the besieged fort, still wearing her blue uniform skirt, a lock of hair flopping loosely across her forehead...
...Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble or a graceful jar that was intended to carry syrupy wine to some homesick outpost near the Pillars of Hercules. Or he finds a forgotten concrete jetty built by Roman engineers to protect the harbor of a busy city that is now a fishing village...