Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place, the University is beginning to feel responsible for the wellbeing of the nation. It no longer believes that a University is exclusively a center of higher learning. It sees itself as an educational institution, and recognizes that the country is more and more dependent on the university to protect it from cultural oblivion. The growth of technocracy has thrown an evergrowing proportion of the populace into the arms of the university, and given it the chance to leave a permanent mark...
Screams by Tea Time. Whether Parker had quit to protect the royal household, whether the Duke had sacked him, or whether the Queen had done the thing, no one would tell. Whatever the cause, the effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until...
...dispute between the nation's press and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over his refusal to let American newsmen go to Red China flared up anew. Going beyond his original argument-an unconvincing one-that the U.S. would not be able to protect reporters behind the Bamboo Curtain, Dulles last week entered a new explanation that first confused and then angered editors across the nation...
...paranoid," explained Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, who filed the complaint against Steyskal in Boston Federal Court on Friday, when Pusey received the letter. Farnsworth said that the F.B.I. assistance was sought to protect Pusey and to get hospital treatment for Steyskal...
...most significant event in the life of England's adolescent Labour Party was unquestionably the Russian Revolution. Immediately, instinctively, Labour moved to protect the new socialist state from the danger of extinction by the capitalist entente. The party--especially the trade unionists which formed its core--fully appreciated the vast gulf which separated the British socialist parliamentarian from the Russian Marxist revolutionary, yet it never ceased its work to ensure that Russia was given the same rights as any other state. At the same time, with a ruthless vigour, it acted to destroy communism at home...