Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stung, Christian Herter soon evened the score. Coldly noting that Gromyko "not only today but on other occasions" had accused NATO and West Germany of planning aggressive war, Herter reminded the conference that "the tensions that have required the Western powers through ordinary prudence to protect themselves" have been "tensions created -and created in many cases deliberately -by the Soviet government." Many more such Soviet charges, he warned, would mean that "our desire to negotiate seriously would be nullified very rapidly...
...such a success that they moved it to another bar, were soon arguing with some Italian waiters that if Guido and other seamen jumped into the lifeboats first, they were not cowards, because it was their duty to protect those expensive little boats with the motors in them. Later, their lines more polished. Pat and pals turned Guido into a golf pro. introduced him to Singer Dick Haymes, who suggested that he had once played Guide's home course in Salerno. (There is no golf course in Salerno though Pat plays high-grade three-handicap golf.) At a party...
...charged that the responses were "purely and simply an attempt by Mr. Long to protect the man to whom he gave" the information about the development. DeGuglielmo offered to jump off the 20th story of the apartment development if it materialized...
...Fonda, Anthony Quinn), two main heroes, two main villains, three main plots, five subplots, eight cooling corpses, and nine major outbreaks of violence. Hero No. 1 (Fonda), a sort of Good Bad Guy, is a notorious gunman who wears gold-handled Colts. The townspeople of Warlock ask him to protect them from Villain No. 1 (Tom Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero No. 1 refuses to take the job without his sidekick. Villain No. 2 (Quinn), a G.B.G. who turns...
...population nearly four times as great, the French people are forced to pay among the highest food markups in the world. When Leclerc began offering 20% off on staple groceries, with up to 70% off on chocolates, razor blades and other specialties, his Landerneau competitors went to war to protect their entrenched position. They first spread false rumors that he was a tool of the church, French labor unions or the French employers' federation. As customers continued to crowd his store, increasing his sales from $26,000 to $700,000 a year, his competitors sent anonymous letters to authorities...