Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toohy said that usually the bicycle stealing occurs periodically every three of four weeks. He added that the only way students can protect their bikes in to register them with the Yard police and to keep them locked up, since thieves rarely use wire snips or saws...
Chester protested. "Those guys are comin' to get us, and we've got to protect ourselves." Replied Big Mike: "Those men are not coming through our line. Tell your boys to go home." After some hesitation, Chester agreed to talk over the loudspeaker. "Well, men," he said, "the chief wants us to go home. We can leave our pickets, but the rest of us must...
Torture. Masked to protect relatives behind the Iron Curtain, a Roman Catholic priest testified that in early 1941 the Communist police arrested him and many other Lithuanians for failing to vote in a phony election. In the prison "the other inmates and I were subjected to brutish and utterly inhuman treatment . . . My head was slammed against the wall [until] I collapsed into unconsciousness. My jailers alternated torture and interrogation. All told, I was questioned 18 nights from 10 o'clock until 4 in the morning. During these periods I was always stripped naked and brutally beaten. [One stretch...
...anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the Holy Church, make all men feel the attraction of Christian goodness...
...results of three years' work by Arnold. On view were a galleryful of ingenious toys, designed with a double purpose: to please the child and develop his esthetic sense. As Arnold explains it: "No child is born with taste. It's up to the parents to protect their children from bad taste just as they try to protect them from disease; bad taste is a disease...