Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather not go back there again. It might be hard to draw a lesson out of this event, but I'll try anyway. Here goes: despite what you know you're going to do, what you would have done in my shoes, or what you would do to protect yourself, you don't. Life will occasionally present you with such unfathomable experiences, and the best you can do is to ride them out. I never thought I'd be scared like that. I thought rioting was a thing of another time and another place. I could tell much more...
Stoical about scandalmongering books about his family and gossip-column misinformation about himself, he was as determined as his mother to protect his personal privacy. That is why he took up flying. When he traveled on commercial aircraft, fellow passengers would ask questions, seek autographs, exchange memories. He understood that they were people of goodwill, and he could not bear to be impolite, but the benign interest of others was a burden. Once he got his flying license, he seemed a liberated man, free to travel as he wished without superfluous demands on time and energy...
...cherished as tax cuts. In 1980 Ronald Reagan defied his advisers and pledged to re-establish official relations with Taipei. Facing defeat in 1992, George Bush authorized the sale of 150 F-16s to Taiwan. Even Bob Dole talked about building a missile-defense shield over the Pacific to protect Taiwan from Chinese aggression...
WHAT DOCTORS SAY NOW Cholesterol is a red herring. But salmon is high in omega-3 fatty acids, which may actually protect against heart disease...
...base. The nun who coached us would pin up her long blue sleeves, hold an instruction manual in front of her and pray. We sewed numbers on old gym suits to make them look like uniforms, while the guys wore miracle-fabric football jerseys over molded plastic sufficient to protect them in the event of a nuclear attack...