Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Witness Weeks's theme was still protection, but protection of another kind. "I am here," he said, "to urge legislation to make jobs and protect jobs-the jobs of the more than 4½ million Americans whose livelihood is provided by world trade...
...exports in 1957 added up to $19.5 billion, a sum greater than the domestic sales of the entire U.S. automobile industry. Added Agriculture. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: in 1957 the U.S. exported $4.7 billion worth of farm products, about one-tenth of the total output. In order to protect the nation's vast and vital export trade, argued Weeks and other Administration witnesses, the U.S. must import goods so that foreign countries can earn dollars to buy U.S. products...
...wake of a fresh wave of teenage violence, culminating in the suicide of a distraught Brooklyn junior high school principal (TIME, Feb. 10), the New York City Board of Education at last decided to crack down on the hoods in its classrooms. "To protect the innocent," it ruled last week, any pupil "charged with a violation of law involving violence or insubordination" would be suspended. The very next day the city's elementary, junior highs and vocational high schools suspended 544 troublemakers, and the academic high schools about 100 more...
...York court banned his Nevada action on the ground that Whitney is a New Yorker and not a legitimate Nevada resident. Cried Eleanor, when told of Sonny's decree: "He is still my husband, and I have never agreed to this divorce. Our own New York courts will protect my marriage and my son [Cornelius, 13] too. I am still married to Mr. Whitney...
Tusk Force. To most, Morel is half-crazed, a crank at best, his pro-pachyderm activities comic and futile. But Gary wonderfully evokes what the elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...