Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison. Dressed only in white shorts, knotted in front, the next convict was fastened to the scaffold. He was the first prisoner's son. Both men had been found guilty of running a brothel. A heavy, padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide red stripe across the prisoner's buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like...
...express is a train carrying a defecting Soviet general from Milan to Rotterdam, accompanied by a crew of se cret agents who are supposed to protect him until he spills all his secrets to our side. The avalanche is but one of the many none too subtle attempts by Soviet intelligence to silence him before he gets too chatty. One keeps wondering why he was not simply bundled on a U.S.-bound plane in Italy in order to avoid all this huggermugger. There is talk about his being so important that rolling him all the way across the Continent will...
...strong proponent of rent control, Graham introduced a bill in the State House this year to protect the city's elderly from condominium conversions...
LaTremouille cites rent control as the major issue in this year's city council elections. He supports adoption of a statute like that in place in Brookline to provide rent control and protect against condominium conversions...
...also supports downzoning to protect residential neighborhoods from business development, and converting more property to community open space...