Word: protectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From there on the little old man attaches himself to the "murder" and her daughter and oppresses them with his assumed liberties until he comes to consider himself the family's sole protector against suitors and snoopers. The Maine twang soon palls on the audience, however, and there is little else entertaining in the stock characters and weak plot of "Little Brown...
Russia donned Mussolini's old mantle as Protector of Islam. Syria and Lebanon had protested against the presence of British and French troops. Tireless Ed Stettinius (who did an effective job of conciliation at UNO) finally got British and French agreement to withdraw "as soon as practicable." Vishinsky, who had argued the strong Levantine case brilliantly, would have none of this compromise...
...Protector. The harsh fact was that Harry Bennett had outlived his usefulness to the empire. The things which he had spent his life protecting it against were now dead issues. Fresh out of the U.S. Navy, he was hired by Old Henry in 1917 to guard the Ford plants against saboteurs. Then he took over the job of guarding the Ford family from kidnappers. He was unable to protect Mr. Ford from swallowing whole the Protocols of Zion,* but kept him from making any more such mistakes. Often, when Mr. Ford blurted something to reporters which might...
...Protector & Protected. No Greek would deny that Damaskinos holds his Regency today, and keeps his Government in power, only with the support of the British Army in Greece. On their fateful visit to Athens last December, at the height of the tragic battle between Greek and Greek, and Greek and Briton, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden chose Damaskinos as the one Greek who might save his countrymen from themselves-and who might save Greece for Britain and the western world...
...show of force gave Tito pause. This week he conceded the main point of the Allies-that title to Trieste must be settled at the European peace conference, not by seizure. His protector in the Kremlin, his disturbed Allies in London and Washington breathed a little easier. None of them had wanted battle at Trieste; yet all had risked it. If Trieste was nothing else, it was a study in the power-political hazards of the Big Three's world...