Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circulate; it was easier to keep the stuff moving than turn it in to a bank in small quantities. By last week the dual coinage was getting to be such a nuisance that Canadian banks moved to end it by putting an extra handling charge on coin exchanges. To protect themselves, businessmen had to start discounting all U.S. coins, or refuse them altogether. A U.S. tourist can still get 95? Canadian for his dollar bill, only 93? for a dollar in change. Only the trusting coin machines will still take his nickels...
...people be governed so that it can produce and share among its members the goods sufficient to their needs, while enjoying those freedoms and human dignities as vital as bread and shelter, and maintaining the strength and unity to protect itself from its enemies, "foreign and domestic? This is the prime question to which the suffering peoples of the world today seek an answer-challenging us to offer an alternative to the Kremlin's confidently asserted formula...
...making, and it's very interesting since 1948 there has been no progress of the Communists in the Middle East . . . It's very interesting those Republicans who are critical of the tragedy of China are now unwilling to appropriate the relatively small sums of money needed to protect India from going the same way. So, therefore, I can see no hope in the Republican Party of any improvement in any of the policies, and I think they'll only be retrograde. You've got to look at not only Eisenhower but the group with...
...might have made use of the legend for their own purposes were the C.G.T. a real union movement. The fact is, the C.G.T. is a tightly disciplined political party completely dominated by Perón. As a weapon in Perón's hand, the Evita legend can protect him against the enemies of the regime; critics of Perón can be shouted down by cries of treason against Evita. Whatever the loss of his wife has meant to Juan Perón, the loss of his co-ruler has not yet affected the power of Argentina...
...them. In September he has to go back to work at the National Museum, and his helpers will go back to school. The location of his find is no longer a secret; American collectors are already nosing around the camp site. And Ontario, oddly, has no antiquities law to protect archaeological diggings from looters. "Practically every ancient trace of man found in Ontario has gone across the border," says the archaeologist sadly. "[U.S. dealers] take artifacts back, claiming them at the border as souvenirs. Then they sell them at high prices . . . If this site is destroyed, I'm afraid...