Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditionalist visitor, Manhattan's wide-windowed Museum of Modern Art has as many jolts as a Coney Island funhouse. Some summer tourists, thankful for the air-conditioning (installed primarily to protect the pictures), take it all in good part. Others are made to feel stupid, cross, or both, when confronted with such enigmatic works as Malevich's White on White-a white-painted canvas adorned with one tilted white square. They are dizzied by the linoleum-like pattern of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, dismayed by the necrophilic horror of Albright's Woman, and dumbfounded...
...Protective Shield. "All of this was changed by our Pacific victory. Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean, which has become a vast moat to protect us as long as we hold it. We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands, extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas, held by us and our free allies. From this island chain we can dominate with air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore, and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific...
This week the Senate finally got down to business on controls, but it was mostly monkey business. Virtually everyone with a homegrown industry or crop to protect hung an amendment on the bill exempting his pet. Said Delaware's John Williams: "Everyone will be exempt from this bill but the consumers." Such as it was, the Senate passed the bill (84-3). A House and Senate conference would have to straighten...
...died, Christopher Smith Reynolds was born, a sickly infant of only 2 Ibs. 11 oz. He got $7 million of the Camel fortune (Libby got $750,000), from which his mother might spend about $75,000 a year to keep him in a $450,000 house near Stamford, Conn., protect him with seven bodyguards and three Great Danes, and provide him with the best in doctors, teachers, clothes and travel...
...Communism. Members of Nguyen Van Tin's league have to take an oath of allegiance and swear "to search energetically day and night for the means to uproot Communism." Two hundred men of Bai Trang have taken this oath. A hundred and fifty of them are used to protect the village against Communist night raids. Of these, 90 have only clubs and knives, 40 have rifles given by the French, and 20 have sporting rifles bought out of village funds...