Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, many a plain citizen who wanted to give a patriotic pint for Korea, and also protect his family against being bled financially white for hospital blood, has felt that he was getting a raw deal. In many communities he would find that he had no blood credit, would have to pay up to $35 a pint for the blood or replace it at the rate of two pints for one, and still pay a service charge which might run to $25. (For safety's sake, better hospitals retype all blood and carefully match it with the patient...
...Jersey and new president of the Industrial Medical Association, Dr. Page is the nation's most articulate pleader for a sweeping program of preventive medicine at the plant. Instead of waiting for a worker to get sick and then treating him, he argues, management should protect its investment in his health by doing everything possible to keep him from ever getting sick...
Starting Again. One reason why Texas oil millionaires have taken to politics is that they want to protect their oil interests, e.g., tidelands oil and the depletion allowance. Last, week in Washington, as a congressional committee started hearings on tax-free foundations, there were rumblings against H. L. Hunt's depletion-fed foundation, Facts Forum. Republican Senators, Delaware's John Williams and Vermont's George Aiken, are out to cut the allowance...
...Dean of Women, Elizabeth B. Kelly, is a warm, realistic woman who approaches her problem in a highly practical way. She came to Middlebury after World War II, during which she had to protect 21 girls from over a thousand men on a base in New Guinea. Noting that a diploma is only so good as a school's reputation, she says, "We of my sex want the privileges of a double standard without any of the responsibilities...
France's greatest holidays-the ninth anniversary of V-E day and the feast day of Joan of Arc. There was little rejoicing on the gaily beflagged, sunshiny boulevards, but neither was there much demonstration. On the V-E holiday, police lined the Champs Elysées to protect the government ministers who came to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph. President René Coty-whose badge of office usually excites big applause -got only a scattering of handclaps. Premier Laniel's car rolled past and some shouted and hissed. "Send...