Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ellis only grunted and turned his head. Straw was piled into Rancher Don Higgens' plane to protect it from bloodstains, and the wounded killer was placed inside. He died shortly after Higgens landed at Valentine, 121 miles away...
...looking bird. Looked like a MIG-15, except the wings were high up on the fuselage. I gave him a few bursts and caught him in the right wing. Then other Reds started coming from all sides, and I had to get out. They seemed to be trying to protect...
...reaction was sharp and strong. Opposition Leader J. G. Strauss, now the leader of Smuts's old United Party, called it "a great act of betrayal." So did a group of enraged South African war veterans, who formed the anti-Malan "Torch Commando" to protect the Constitution. Their leader was a cousin of Malan's and an R.A.F. wing commander in the Battle of Britain: Adolph ("Sailor") Malan. In tampering with the franchise, said the Opposition, Prime Minister Malan had violated the "Entrenched Clauses" in South Africa's Constitution. Torch backed four colored voters who took...
...Shanghai shop assistant last week tried for a while to protect his employer. "The boss has been very kind to me," he explained. "When I was not feeling well, he gave me money and told me to go home and take a rest. It would be against my conscience to denounce him." A pack of Communist terriers yelped that such kindness was merely an old capitalistic trick of tempting with favors. "After being thus educated," said Shanghai's People's Daily, "the shop assistant immediately denounced his boss for ten offenses...
During its sessions, many nations demanded clauses to protect their "national prestige and dignity," and insisted that newspapers promote peace and exclude war propaganda. Latin American countries suggested that publication of "unfair" stories should be a criminal offense...