Word: protectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearances at football games, banquets, parades and public meetings. Despite his age and ailments, he still managed the mellow eloquence and the matchless gall which had made him the darling of the Boston streets. Though his principal opponents were Irishmen like himself, he spoke as though he were a protector of the people crusading against the Boston Brahmins...
...Dozen Ping-Pong Balls. Last spring, the French proclaimed IndoChina's autonomy under the French Union (roughly designed as an equivalent of the British Commonwealth).* They also returned to the Indo-Chinese their plump former Emperor Bao Dai ("The Great Protector...
...millions of Indians, Gandhi's friend Nehru is still the father-protector; he tirelessly travels all over his vast country to see and be seen by the people. Recently he visited remote Ladakh, in the Himalayas, where he had his picture taken with two local lamas. But except for Nehru, there is scarcely a major figure in India today who could command loyalty or respect should the 59-year-old Nehru follow Gandhi. Few can see beyond Nehru and his logical successor Patel...
...Seek a Protector." Inside the camps in Russia's "classless" society, a strict class system developed. At the bottom were dokhodyagi, "persons who had lost resemblance to the human form ..." Next came the rabotyagi, "who had not yet lost their strength," the urki (criminals), finally the predurki, the camp aristocrats who worked in the administration. Though "sexual intercourse ... is a punishable offense, the conditions of life give a woman no choice but to seek a protector among the camp aristocracy...
Pity, or what Scobie thinks of as pity, proceeds inexorably to destroy him. A young girl, survivor of a torpedoed ship, is carried into his life on a stretcher, and rather than let her innocence be corrupted by a promiscuous R.A.F. pilot, Scobie becomes her adulterous protector. Blackmailed by the Syrian loan-shark, Scobie, who cannot bear to let his wife suffer, buys off the Syrian by helping him to smuggle diamonds through the British blockade...