Word: protectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crop protector, it is deadlier and longer lasting than other insecticides, has been found effective against potato beetles, cabbage worms, apple codling moths, Japanese beetles, aphids, fruit worms, even corn borers - against which previous insecticides have proved to be failures...
...petty Portuguese nobleman, Velazquez began to study painting at the age of twelve. As a court painter he sat at a table with the royal buffoons, received the same daily allowance as the royal barbers. But his job gave him the two things he needed most, a powerful protector and a studio of his own. He painted in it for 36 years, until he died suddenly of a fever...
...metal foot protector that fits over the shoe and prevents toes from being smashed by falling objects or careless steppers...
Probably the only editor in uniform who has attacked his own Government again & again and got away with it is Captain Warwick M. J. Charlton, editor of the British Eighth Army News. Last week he had left Italy (where the Eighth is stalled) to serve under his old boss protector, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, now preparing to attack the Continent...
That cost Charlton most of his press freedom-by policy censorship imposed from England. Through all this, Monty defended Charlton, gave only one censorship order: that there be no criticism of U.S. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. in the soldier-slapping incident: Even the News's protector has not escaped its editor's barbs. Captain Charlton wrote Monty's first Order of the Day in the desert. Thereafter the General wrote his own, but Charlton edited some of them. Said the Captain of the General: "He kept using the same old trite phrases...