Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unwitting Allies. As El Fatah had evidently hoped, a crowd of angry Israelis pounced on and beat every Arab it could find in the vicinity. As police, aided by soldiers on leave, rushed to protect Arab passersby, the mob surged into neighboring Jaffa's Arab quarter, smashing Arab shops as it went and finally gathering around the police station, where 400 Arabs were being held in protective custody...
...confirmed that Vienne was once a thriving Roman colony. Wealthy citizens decorated their homes with multicolored mosaics, 15 different kinds of marble, elaborate basins and fishponds. Because the town was often threatened by the flooding Rhône, there were drainage ditches six feet deep between each villa. To protect salt and wheat stored in villa storerooms from dampness, Vienne's architects partially buried between 50 and 60 empty olive jars upside down in the earth beneath the rooms. Thus infiltrating waters would trap air in each, providing a dry-air barrier beneath the storerooms...
...protect residents from the cold Vienne winters, architects placed wood stoves under floors that were supported by brick pillars, and built walls of hollow bricks that would be heated by the fires below. An inscripted name, cut at intervals of ten feet along the lengths of lead pipes used to carry water in residential neighborhoods, revealed that one of ancient Vienne's plumbers was called Caius Lucentius...
Thus, from an inconsequential human cipher, Stephens leaped to importance as a central witness in one of the century's most shocking assassinations. He was so important that the state sought to do everything-even keep him a prisoner-to protect him against harm from possible accomplices in the killing. At first, Stephens willingly moved into Shelby County jail, where he was free to come and go but was accompanied by a bodyguard. He was away too often to suit police. Claiming that his activities outside the jail jeopardized his own safety, the state invoked a Tennessee law that...
...Siberia. As repayment of the loan and to cover its interest, the Russians over a five-year period will ship 8,020,000 cubic feet of timber to Japan. With housing chronically short in Japan and with U.S. West Coast suppliers restricting sales of logs to the Japanese to protect domestic plywood sources, the Siberian timber agreement is a coup...