Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another shot at a man-killing job? Some cynics suggest he is really angling for the Senate nomination next year; he has always hankered for his late father's seat on Capitol Hill. Perhaps, like many career politicians, he cannot abide private life. Or perhaps he wants to protect his party from the candidacy of Novelist Norman Mailer, who has been threatening to seek the nomination with Jimmy Breslin, journalist, author and character-about-town, as his running mate for city council president...
...announces that it will protect Italy against the Communists. American missiles rise out of underground silos. Young Communists race through the streets crying "Now we begin the blood bath!" On television an unknown pop singer is belting out Bandiera Rossa (Red Flag). Calls pour in saying how great she is, and the program goes on all night...
Soon Simmons became a two-way embarrassment. The U.S. State Department did not like to appear unable to protect one of its citizens abroad. The Mexican government did not want to interfere with its courts lest it appear to be giving in to its powerful neighbor to the north. In an effort at compromise, Simmons was given to understand that he would "probably" be released if he petitioned for a commutation. Since that might have implied an admission of guilt, he refused. But he had nothing against trying to escape. In 1962, one attempt got him two bullets...
...Corporation would want to protect the right of a minority of students to participate in ROTC as an extracurricular activity even if a majority of students and Faculty voted otherwise. What the Corporation would actually do in the unlikely event the Faculty passed such a vote was a point I specifically left open...
...concept of duty and service. He says: "What the military has tried to do for nearly two centuries of American history-and I hope will go on trying to do-is, if possible, to prevent wars, minimize the pain of peacetime defense as much as possible, and yet protect the American people so that they can live in peace and freedom as they wish...