Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoke and carbon monoxide rapidly filled the cabin. Though the astronauts suffered burns, it was asphyxiation that killed them. So intense were the heat and smoke billowing from the cabin into the "white room" near the craft that rescuers were repeatedly driven back and their gas masks, designed to protect against toxic fumes rather than smoke, were quickly exhausted...
...jungles of Tay Ninh near Saigon, was in Chu Lai; more G.I.s were on their way. Their mission: to take over the security of Chu Lai and its environs while the Marines of Lieut. General Lewis Walt, who commands Viet Nam's five northernmost provinces, move northward to protect what has become one of the Viet Nam war's most contested areas...
...little more than four hundred years ago Albrecht Durer made a portrait of Erasmus but felt it necessary to protect himself by putting an inscription right in the painting: "If you really want to know what the man Erasmus is like, read his books." A book, either by or about the man, would give information gathered over a longer period than the interval presented in a single picture...
...supply lines are about to be threatened by a strike." And two Republican Senators, New York's Jacob Javits and California's Thomas H. Kuchel, proposed a bill that would allow the Government to seek through the courts authority to keep struck industries operating in order "to protect the public health and safety...
...minimize the risks as much as possible. The first phase of local elections will be held only in secure, government-controlled areas-with a total population of 5,000,000. The definition of security varies, however, and in some hamlets there are more candidates than police or militia to protect them. A second phase, bringing elections to areas as they are pacified, aims at another 600,000 people in 258 villages and 1,100 hamlets by Oct. 1. All candidates for the 15,000 local posts available must meet 13 requirements before a Saigon-appointed board, the most important...