Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes were on Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, army chief of staff, who led an abortive revolt against Parliament in 1952, might do so again. Hardworking, anti-Communist General Nasution proclaimed a ban on all political activity "until further notice," and, to protect the boss, ordered that no newspaper be allowed to publish pictures showing Sukarno kissing anyone, since public kissing is offensive to many Moslems...
...philosophy you cannot avoid it. We are going to question the student's dearest beliefs," Demos states. "I don't try to protect the freshmen, but I don't attempt to ram the ideas into them. I try to examine also the assumptions on which science is built. Our job is to examine everything...
...protect Harvard from awarding degrees to possibly undesirable people, all those recommended for honoraries must pass a triple test. A special standing committee of the Corporation, established in 1881, meets during the year to judge the qualifications of outstanding men and women. (Some people have tried to promote themselves directly as worthy recipients of doctorates, but as far as one expert upon honoraries knows, no such effort has ever succeeded.) The President of the University may direct suggestions to the committee, but the committee alone can make recommendations for further consideration...
...blasted the sugar workers in the Red newspaper Hoy for "brutally antidemocratic methods." The sugar workers answered Bias Roca by voting to censure Hoy for its "distorted, calumnious and counterrevolutionary reports." Shouts of "Burn Hoy !" rang through the hall, and a cordon of cops had to be sent to protect its plant for 24 hours...
After five years, the Prudential Insurance Co. last week won a major victory in its campaign for variable annuities, a new type of insurance designed to protect policyholders against inflation. Under the plan, annuity payments vary according to the price of common stocks in which premiums are invested, a sharp contrast to conventional annuities, which guarantee fixed payment based on traditional insurance company investments, such as mortgages...