Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week after four months silence, Nehru's government happily announced that at last it had won a "trade pact" with Red China. The terms: India to withdraw a tiny garrison it has maintained in Tibet for years to protect Indian merchants and pilgrims; India to let Red China set up "trade missions" (with diplomatic immunity) inside India at New Delhi, Calcutta, Kalimpong; Indians to seek entry into Tibet only along six specified passes and not to seek entry at all into the "closed territory" of Sinkiang. India also for the first time recognized Tibet as an integral part...
...melting vanilla cones. Guardians of the Primal, which the Baltimore Museum bought, shows a bird-faced man doing a minuet with a man-faced bird; between them on a string stretches a fanged serpent. Toledano says he was trying to show "the seeds of life and the forces which protect it," using human, bird and animal parts to create "a synthesis of life." In Parallel, Toledano's intent is clearer. As he explains it, "The man and the vase, the animate and the inanimate, resemble each other very much. The joke is on man here. Man considers himself...
...Since a complaint has been made," Hunt explained, "all he (Superintendent of Schools Dennis C. Haley) could do without prejudice is to order an investigation--if only to protect the school system . . . I hope this can all be done in an unemotional climate...
...parley was ruined by sheer heavyhandedness. Major General Heyman arrived, but as the army communiqué put it, "the Mau Mau representatives came within a few hundred yards but something frightened them off." The "something" was 1,800 British and African infantrymen, poured into the area to protect the British brass...
...Canadian defense officials gave a guarded glimpse last week of a new system of electronic detection stations designed to protect North America's heartland from Soviet air attack. The new line, lying "generally to the north of the settled territory in Canada," would provide earlier warning of intruding aircraft than the Pinetree Chain of interlocking radar stations, already in operation from coast to coast above the Canadian border...