Word: protectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behind her came the cygnet and chaperone, her sister and protector. When I saw her I felt I had been struck in the heart by a stone. Mr. Drake frowned and drummed his fingers, Mr. Cook began biting his thumbnail and leered in fury, Mr. Porter became homely and paternal, Williams gave a scheming look at her legs, the stage-struck Hodgkin took a comb out of his pocket and ran it through his waved hair. Turpin and Sawston, who were on opposite sides of the same, high, tilted desk, looked at each other fixedly. They looked as though they...
Miss Lamour changes clothes, to good effect, at least a dozen times, and croons Beside You to her unwilling protector. Alan Ladd gets into the act briefly-and so does Bing Crosby at the last possible moment. In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity...
Gloom Week was clearly a turning point for the Laborite Government. Now it would have to face decisions that would change its role from labor's protector to labor's prodder. Clement Attlee's regime was in for a hot time in the next few weeks, not only from the Loyal Opposition but also from the ranks of labor, on whose loyalty it depends...
...Flight. "The Administration's 'yellow dog' injunction has reached the Supreme Court. . . . The Supreme Court is and . . . will ever be the protector of American liberties." He trembled on the verge of tears. "During its period of deliberation the Court [must] be free from public pressure superinduced by the hysteria and frenzy of an economic crisis...
Constantin von Neurath, oldest of the defendants (73), onetime protector of Czechoslovakia; 15 years...