Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile other thinkers produced a variety of other life savers, among them a suit of aluminum pajamas, a lead foil brassiere to protect "mammary projections" and a lead girdle (which would be valueless unless it were six inches thick) to protect the spleen. All were gently but firmly discouraged. So was at least one man who was peddling perfectly valid information-the inner four pages of the CDA's 10? official survival book. He was reselling the pages for a dollar...
...line," set into the rug before the front benches to make sure that government and opposition are two full sword lengths apart, may once have had historical justification. But I got the feeling that today's honorable members really need armor, not in front but in back, to protect themselves from the quills of their fellow party members...
...generation deserved less to die, for the quality of his vision about what literature is and what life can be should have been sufficient to protect him against the severe climate of our time. That it was not is his tragedy just as surely as it is also that of the society in which such a man perishes...
...rule--requiring organizations to submit membership lists to the Dean's Office--was tabled on a motion by Carl M. Sapers '53. Previously, a committee which formulated arguments concerning the regulations suggested that, to protect radical groups, the rule be discarded or else require the Dean to destroy the lists each year...
...divisions he had promised General Eisenhower for European defense in 1951. General Alphonse Juin, just back from a tour of troubled Morocco, said he needed veteran units in North Africa. But De Lattre had a firm supporter in Jean Letourneau, Minister for the Associated States. Said Letourneau: "We protect France by fighting in Indo-China...