Word: protector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Banging his fist on his desk, Nehru declared that NATO is "a powerful protector of colonialism," which has had the "gross impertinence" to hint to India that it would protect Portuguese Goa. "We should not take any sides in the cold war," said Nehru. "It is an intolerable humiliation for any nation of Asia or Africa to degrade itself by becoming a camp follower of one or the other of the power blocs . . . We will not join either bloc because that means losing our identity...
That was not much to offer the men of fired-up ambitions in Peking. Nor did it do much to obscure from Peking the fact that its chief protector and supplier (of MIGs, tanks and other hardware) is openly displaying internal weakness and severe production failures, at a time when Communism is trying to give the appearance of unbeatable strength and inexorable influence across Asia. In Red China's only public reaction to the Kremlin turnover. Premier Chou-En-lai cabled a curiously minimal message of congratulation to Bulganin. "I am confident," said Chou. "that you. under the leadership...
...Protector. A plastic that can be sprayed on rugs of all types to form a protective film against soiling has been put on sale by Philadelphia's Artloom Carpet Co. Called "dellay," the plastic is colorless, odorless and noninflammable. An application lasts for about six months...
Beneath the mighty oak roof that Richard II built, on the spot where Charles I was condemned to the scaffold and Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector, where Britain's dead kings are mourned and its new ones feted, Sir Winston Churchill stood last week and received his country's heartfelt tributes on his 80th birthday. Before him, vast Westminster Hall (hard by the House of Commons) was packed with top-hatted peers and tiaraed peeresses, members of Parliament and their wives, from closest allies to such old antagonists as Aneurin Bevan...
Baron Konstantin von Neurath, fluent linguist and brilliant diplomatist, had suavely served the Weimar Republic as Foreign Minister, then without apparent twinge of conscience served Hitler. In 1941 he finally resigned as Hitler's "Protector" of Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...