Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial, Art Historian Réau admitted that he had authenticated a Fragonard on the basis of a photograph. This was current procedure, he pleaded. Snapped the public prosecutor: "When Réau and Cordovado betray their mission to protect the public, which is their moral duty, we have a twilight of the art critic gods...
...city. Angrily, the Togolese demanded just what the French meant by this show of force. French officers, equally puzzled, said they had come to stop a revolution. Asked the Togolese huffily: "What revolution?" At his shabby house, called La Hutte, the debonair Premier airily dismissed a guard assigned to protect him against assassination: "Go away. I don't need you. If you want to sit up all night at the alert, go to your camp and do it, but leave me in peace." He went back to his dinner, chuckling. "A coup d'état by the Juvento...
Real focus of the commission's interest, however, was its ambitious attempt to come up with a universally acceptable set of "principles, institutions and procedures . . . to protect the individual from arbitrary government and to enable him to enjoy the dignity of man." Right at the start, the jurists' qualifications for this job were challenged by India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, himself a onetime barrister-at-law of London's Inner Temple. India is bothered by the setting up of military dictatorships all over Southeast Asia; it is itself a democracy, but does not scruple...
...second half saw the Crimson open up a ten point advantage at the eight-minute mark and spend the rest of the time trying to protect it. Columbia pulled within three points several times, but the varsity always managed to score in the clutch. When McClellan fouled out with three minutes to go, apprehension spread through the I.A.B., but Jack Foker did an able job as his replacement, scoring four of the varsity's last six points
...recent NATO session in Paris, became official last week when the U.S., Britain and France, in different but "convergent" notes, rejected Khrushchev's proposals for all occupying nations to withdraw from a "free Berlin," which would then be isolated no miles inside the Iron Curtain. The obligation to protect the freedom of more than 2,000,000 West Berliners, the notes said, "is a right and responsibility solemnly accepted by the three Western powers." But, they added, if Khrushchev will abandon the "menace" of his six-month timetable, the three would be ready to discuss Berlin's status...