Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police force. God help us when things come to pass as our news media would like to see it. I couldn't be paid enough to go into the streets and face what the Chicago police did in their attempt to enforce law and order and protect those who find it so easy to condemn...
...voters register 3 to 1 Democratic, Agnew was elected to the governorship in 1966 because, once again, the Democrats had been split by a bloody primary campaign. His opponent was Baltimore Contractor George P. Mahoney, a buffled-headed segregationist who campaigned on the slogan: "Your home is your castle?protect it." Agnew staked out a moderate position, emphasizing the need for fiscal responsibility and tax reform...
...Right, despite its love of simple answers, does not want for contradictions. It bases its appeal on protecting the hectored individual against the encroachments of Government, but attacks the Supreme Court when it acts to protect the individual against the Government's police powers. One of the more revealing Gallup polls of recent months asked whether citizens wanted new appointees to the Supreme Court to be conservative or liberal. The response was pro-conservative, 51% to 30%. The economic group strongest for this view was the $3,000-$5,000 bracket-the very segment that would seemingly benefit most...
...Corrections and Holmesburg Prison. By conservative estimates, says the report, 2,000 assaults took place in the past two years. And once a man has been attacked, he is marked as a target for homosexual advances. A few reluctantly enter "housekeeping" arrangements with the strongest attackers, who in turn protect them from other inmates...
...truck. Four of the seven 16-mm. cameras went out of commission the first three weeks, and the film kept melting. Holden's human brigade got through unscathed, though, thanks in part to the Kenya Army Camel Corps, which rode shotgun for the company to protect it against marauding Shifta tribesmen. Holden survived partly on a daily diet of 15 cans of Carlsberg beer (he brought along 120 cases...