Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called a general strike. Last week. El Khoury asked help to shore up his crumbling regime from General Fuad Shehab, an able nonpolitical military man who commands Lebanon's brigade-sized army. The general politely refused. He added that the army could no longer be depended on to protect the President's safety. Just after midnight one day last week, El Khoury quit. At El Khoury's insistence, General Shehab became caretaker President and Premier. No Naguib, he made it clear that he does not want to stay in office. This week Lebanon's Chamber...
Last week the SRP announced that it would "voluntarily" dissolve itself. Secretary General Fritz Heller tried hard to make out that the move was only a strategic withdrawal-necessary to protect party members from Communist agents, who were supposedly threatening them. (In the past, the Reds and the neo-Nazis have been cheek by jowl.) But most Germans were convinced that the SRP was trying to dodge being outlawed, would try to continue to spread its poison underground...
...upheld the cinema's right to free speech (TIME, June 2), he found that the censorship law violated both the state and federal constitutions. The Ohio law, said Judge Wiley, "is of itself a greater evil than the possibility of evil against which the statute was designed to protect...
...blooded associations like the Keep American Committee and Protect Americanism League may fare poorly in most of the Union, but they can always claim California as their stamping ground. Combined with the local virulent brand of Hearst journalism and American Legionnaires, they are a formidable array. And in their perpetual stampede, it is the state school system which suffers most...
...future ones offer any solution, since throttling the, extremes would inevitably threaten the moderates' freedom as well. The answer is the simple one that a democracy has always afforded to citizens: counterpressure, provided by the majority, only public realization of freedom's worth in education all public pressure to protect that freedom can rid communities of super-patriot footholds...