Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...processing plants here, the nuts are shelled by hand after being roasted to make the shell soft and brittle. The shelling is done by women. Each woman has a pan of ashes by her, and after shelling two or three nuts she dips her hands into the ashes, which protect the fingers from the corrosive oil. In this way they shell nuts all day, everyday, for weeks and months on end, and never have any skin trouble...
...significance of this proposal, aside from its practical difficulties, lies in the attitude it conveys. It suggests that the science departments huddle together to protect their own, and take a unified stand on questions dealing with General Education. The Committee has not found this reaction from other areas, where courses can always be arranged on an individual basis, and no defensively departmental attitudes appear...
...Mboya's restlessness was felt more and more throughout the land, penetrating even the Mau Mau detention camps, Kenya's government ordered government tape recorders installed at all African political meetings. But by last week the whites were beginning to realize that in order to protect their own inch, they might yet have to give Mboya a measure of his mile. A first meeting between black and white was held to discuss council reform, and at least one wise Kenya official admitted: "Some increase in African representation is justified and necessary." Says Mboya confidently: "Rule of this country...
...Chicago, the Southern Baptist Convention, which has admitted Negroes to membership for several years, but has not yet allowed a Negro to vote, urged at its annual meeting an end of resistance to racial integration. The convention called on police and the courts to protect the Negro, "irrespective of his position or culture, from lawless attacks upon his person or property...
...country 4,000 banks for a population of 5,000,000 -six times as many per capita as the U.S. They started their secrecy policy in the days of the Napoleonic Wars to guard the endangered fortunes of Europe's capitalists, in 1934 wrote it into law to protect the funds of victims of Nazi and Fascist persecution. Anyone can open a secret account in a Swiss bank, get a code number for all his transactions. The secrecy code is so stringent that the Swiss tax collector himself dares not inquire about a depositor's account...