Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five strings, five winds and six-handed piano. Over the bubbly, breakneck music ex-pupils chanted their praise of Nadia. One, made up to look like President René Coty of France, paid the Fourth Republic's tribute; another, costumed like a priest, intoned, "St. Nadia, protect us," and two more singers, representing Sebastian (Bach) and Igor (Stravinsky), chanted: "Long live peaceful coexistence...
...federal troops are there to protect the children, the Negro children will go to school tomorrow," said Mrs. L. C. Bates, NAACP state leader...
...fighter-trainer barely had its nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge fired to drag out a 22-in. chute, which pulled out a 60-in. chute. The second chute, in turn, pulled out the main...
...they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists might pray pardon for their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal to protect the Scots on the frontier. Virginia Anglicans might ponder whether their failure 350 years after Jamestown to number more than a fraction of the Baptists and Methodists in that state is not due to their reluctance to admit tyranny before 1776 and superciliousness since. The Methodists and Baptists...
...Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...