Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fraudulent user of credit cards. According to Police Lieut. Allen Gore of New York City, all of these criminals are difficult to spot. "No one looks like a pickpocket or a shoplifter," says he. "There are no 'types.' " Gore advises that the best way for men to protect their money is to carry it in a shirt pocket or the inside pocket of a jacket; women should bury their wallets deep in their handbags after every purchase...
With this assurance, Fortas goes on to describe the role of the Court as that of "striking the balance between the state's right to protect itself and its citizens, and the individual's right to protest, dissent, and oppose." And, with extraordinary civil libertarian vigor, Fortas contends that the U.S. government "recognizes and has always recognized that an individual's fundamental moral or religious commitments are entitled to prevail over the needs of the state...
...continue growing for as long as three weeks after the drug is administered, the constricted segment of the fibers is pushed about an eighth of an inch beyond the skin. Thus ranchers can not only peel off the wool evenly, but also leave a woolly stubble behind to protect the sheep against the elements...
...Adson's way of thinking the question was this: If a gallstone is detected while it is still silent and causing no trouble, should it be removed immediately and prophylactically to protect the patient against possible future illness that might threaten his life? Weighing present risk against future peril, and after examining thousands of recorded cases, Adson rather cautiously concluded that prophylactic surgery is sometimes justified. One case in point: a patient under 65 who has coronary artery disease; the risks become far greater, said Adson, if such a patient has to have emergency gall-bladder surgery later...
Adson still felt a need to protect patients against those medical men whom he accused of having "surgical genes-an inborn bias in favor of surgery." To this, Surgeon Kenneth W. Warren of Boston's Lahey Clinic replied: "We're a bit more aggressive than Mayo's in cutting out silent stones." The difference stirred Florida Surgeon John J. Farrell, moderator of the Miami gallstone session, to cite an overseas situation at the University of London. There, Internist Sheila Sherlock is a leading opponent of surgery on silent stones, but Surgeon Rodney Smith, who operates on most...