Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school shooting gallery. As he left the building and headed for his black Chrysler limousine, a pistol shot rang out. Then five hand grenades sizzled through the air and exploded almost at the President's feet. At the sound of the pistol shot an adjutant leaped to protect Sukarno's body with his own. Somehow, Sukarno escaped injury. But the grenades killed ten women, children and policemen, wounded 167 others. They also made a sieve of the President's Chrysler...
...retaliate, combined with the ability to intercept and detonate an enemy's guided missiles before they can damage the U.S. proper. But beyond that was a vital area where serious exploration has made little if any inroad in public consciousness. Prime question: What can shelters do to protect people in all-out thermonuclear...
...West, but not the geographical integrity of their most exposed European member, West Germany. Since taking over as the federal republic's Defense Minister last year, stocky, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been preparing plans for a home army "under German not NATO control, to try and protect the Fatherland." Last week Strauss named a member of an old Prussian military family, Major General Hans-Joachim von Horn, 61, to organize and command such a force...
Dean Mason asserted that our economic aid to the crucial areas of South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East cannot be attributed to humanitarian ideals or the interests of our economy, although these elements are present. He said that the purpose of the aid was to protect security interests...
...supply U.S. housewives on washday, six U.S. companies and nine competing foreign nations manufacture spring-operated clothespins at the rate of 791 million a year. Last week, to please the six U.S. companies-and protect a market worth less than $4,000,000-at the risk of offending Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, Yugoslavia and five others, President Eisenhower doubled the tariff on imports of spring clothespins to the U.S. Concurring in a Tariff Commission finding that domestic industry was "injured" by rising imports, he raised the tariff from 10? per gross to 20? per gross, to give "appropriate relief...