Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KHRUSHCHEV began his denunciation of Stalin by revealing two suppressed letters. One was written by Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, to Lev Kamenev, chief of the Politburo: "I beg of you to protect me from rude interference with my private life and from vile invectives and threats [by Stalin]." Lenin wrote direct to Stalin: "You permitted yourself a rude summons of my wife to the telephone and a rude reprimand of her ... I have no intention to forget so easily that which is being done against me ... I ask you therefore that you weigh carefully whether you are agreeable...
...audience in Norwich, "depend today, and must depend for many years, on oil supplies from the Middle East. If ever our oil resources were imperiled, we should be compelled to defend them. The facilities we need in Cyprus are part of that defense. "No Cyprus-no certain facilities to protect our supply of oil. No oil-hunger and unemployment in Britain. It's as simple as that." This was certainly plain speaking. Eden went farther, accused Britain's ally, Greece, of fomenting much of the trouble. "It is certainly contrary to the whole spirit of NATO," he said...
...rebel army was striking the most telling blows of the bitter, 19-month war. For Algeria's 9,000,000 acres of grain are vital for France as well as Algeria (Algeria is France's No.1 customer). Last week 300,000 French troops were trying desperately to protect Algerian farmers getting in the harvest...
Resisting the Present. Some 70 delegations of prostitutes met recently in an old wrestling arena to establish a protective union, which they called "The Federation of All Japan Special Eating and Drinking Establishments Working Girls' Unions." To the embarrassment of Premier Hatoyama's Liberal-Democratic Party, Japan's brothel owners, operating as "The National Venereal Disease Prevention Autonomous Association," showered the city's bars and bordellos with handbills urging pimps and prostitutes to join the government party en masse, to protect their legislative interests from within...
...miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains, he was put on the Mau Mau murder list...