Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted a cease-fire in the five-year-old Algerian civil war, it must deal directly with their "provisional government." but this De Gaulle had barred from the beginning. Equally unacceptable to Paris was Abbas' scorn for De Gaulle's hint that Algeria might be partitioned to protect the right of French settlers and the rebel leader's suggestion that no vote to settle Algeria's future could be valid so long as the French army remained there...
...Laborites made some election propaganda out of the scandal, but much more than politics was involved. Whichever party wins, the case has made it virtually certain that the next Parliament will enact legislation, similar to that in the U.S., to protect Britain's small investors...
...infringement of belief and opinion tends to erode the healthy diversity that is the basis of a free community; once a loyalty test is accepted, succeeding infringements are surrendered to more docilely and imposed more readily. By its continued resistance to loyalty oaths, the University must protect and foster the multanimity that maintains the vigor of a free society...
...Robert A. Phillips, 53, Namru-2 is a mobile, down-to-earth outfit which operates on the premise that more fighting men have been felled by disease than by broadsword or bomb. Its primary mission is to secure medical knowledge of potential military significance. In the process, it helps protect and improve the health of peoples wherever U.S. troops are stationed in the Far East. Roaming free Asia in everything from jeeps to light planes, Namru's field teams (average strength: twelve men) have collected mosquitoes from traps in dunghills, snails from paddyfields, snakes from underbrush, argued Chinese followers...
...started to work on the small car in secret. It was fairly simple to roll down a tight security curtain because each of G.M.'s semi-sovereign divisions is constantly tinkering on its own far-out projects that it keeps under wraps to protect them from competitors or even from rival divisions...