Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee stated that, "A university committee unlike a court, has no way by the power of bailiffs or the use of contempt proceedings to protect itself against disruption or harrassment, not is there any precedent at Harvard for public meetings held to act on cases of possible Faculty misconduct...
...NASA has not revealed how it would react to the outbreak of a strange illness inside the astronaut-receiving area. If the symptoms were mild, the quarantine would presumably be extended at least until the disease had run its course. NASA would have to consider more drastic measures to protect the health of the world's population if the illness proved disabling or deadly-like that in Novelist Michael Crichton's bestseller, The Andromeda Strain...
...worship around the U.S., clerics and laymen prayed for the astronauts' success. At St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in Boston, the four brothers of Patricia Finnegan Collins, wife of Astronaut Mike Collins, heard Father John Schatzel read from Genesis: "I will be with you and protect you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land." In Neil Armstrong's home town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, the Rev. Herman J. Weber prayed at St. Paul's United Church of Christ: "Oh thou great architect of the universe, it is only because thy universe...
...week's end, both countries accepted an OAS cease-fire proposal. It called for a withdrawal of Salvadoran troops from Honduran territory in return for a Honduran pledge to protect the lives of Salvadorans in Honduras. An OAS peace-keeping force would stand guard along the border until tempers cooled. Since both sides seemed to have exhausted their ammunition and war planes, there was hope that the truce might turn into a permanent peace...
...acts of violence during the Democratic National Convention, the Justice Department claimed the inherent right to bug or wiretap-without court orders-any time it felt that the "national security" was in jeopardy, As authority for this broad power, the Government cited the President's oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" from domestic subversion as well as foreign enemies. Contending that every President since Franklin Roosevelt had permitted such wiretaps, the Government went on to imply that they were even more important now because of the growing violence and rioting in the nation's cities...