Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know, the Roman Catholic Church does not condemn the "held hand and the shared ice-cream soda." It is the roaming hand and the shared whisky-and-soda which this practice may lead to. The church has the right and obligation to protect the moral life of its members...
...estimated 400 million Moslems, establishing new nations across half the world's girth. From Morocco to Indonesia, the drive of Islam's women toward emancipation has kept pace with the drive of their countries toward independence. In Pakistan, where ten years ago cars were heavily curtained to protect women from the vulgar gaze of men, hundreds of still devout women now drive themselves, unveiled, to work or on their social rounds. In Tunisia, where in 1947 polygamy was accepted practice, a husband landed in jail last April for having defied the law and taken a second wife...
...said that forwards cannot sustain sharp, driving attacks without halfback support, nor can fullbacks adequately protect a goalie without the services of halfbacks as the first line of defense against an opposing forward line...
...Teamsters were suspended by a 25 to 4 vote (the four: representatives of the Teamsters, the scandal-tinged Bakery Workers, the powerful Carpenters, the Letter Carriers). Under George Meany's tough hand, a powerful majority had shown that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. would risk its own future to protect honest unions from creeping corruption. The suspension would be lifted only if the Teamsters cleared Hoffa and his pals from the union and permitted the federation to correct Teamster abuses; otherwise, the Council would recommend expulsion by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention. Grim and glum, Hoffa marched...
...Consideration of a privately operated international investment guarantee fund to protect foreign investments...