Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avery is friends with all the bikeys," said Janet, an Emerson College sophomore / dealer. "They protect him." Bikeys are toughs with bicycle chains around their necks and iron crosses, who carry guns and threaten to shoot any dealer who cheats them, but they like Avery. "They used to hang around Avery on the Common, watching out for him," Janet added. "Of course, if he ever burned one of them, he'd be in trouble...
...unsolicited collection arrived at the University Library from Vienna in early September, Louis A. Sasso, assistant University librarian, said yesterday. Sasso withheld the name of the American and the details of his involvement in Czechoslovakia, however, to protect the Czech citizens who helped...
...Preserve and Protect, Drury...
Godless Actors. England's play censorship was established during the 16th century in order to stamp out Catholic stage resistance to the Reformation, as well as to protect the people from the bad influence of actors, who were generally held to be godless degenerates. Licensing became an official duty of the Chamberlain in 1737, when Prime Minister Robert Walpole grew so outraged by the political lampoons of Henry Fielding that he forced through a new censorship law. Since then, the Lords Chamberlain have had unchallengeable authority to ban plays by Ibsen (Ghosts), Shaw (Mrs. Warren's Profession), Pirandello...
Since the hotel faces inward, it seems to shun its neighborhood. "You have to think of the hotel as a ship. The blank outside walls are only to protect the inside," says Legorreta. For extra privacy, the guest rooms are far from the hustle of the lobby, convention rooms, three restaurants and seven bars...