Word: protectorate
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...believe you," Dylan sneers back, hauntingly echoing the words of an earlier song, "you're a liar". If not for this exchange, Dylan's performance might have been regarded as merely a dissatisfaction to the audience, rather than pure treachery. To them, Bob Dylan was supposed to be the protector of the "Old Guard" against Rock and Roll, a crusader for the rights of the common people through his songs--the liner notes suggest that this concert marked him as "a traitor to the proletariat cause...
...country's largest trade show, with more than 200,000 people showing up this year. For a week some of the wiliest folks from the world's richest and most powerful companies drop in on a place that specializes in separating fools from their money. Every night the pocket-protector crowd flocks to the gaming tables, and you can see the pit bosses tense up. If ever there was a time to suspect that someone at, say, the roulette table had an odds-calculating supercomputer hidden in his shoe, this...
...Dean of Students comes the end of an era in the history of the College. Twentynine years after the young then-assistant dean was carried out of University Hall during the student takeover of 1969, Epps has left a mark on this campus as mediator, spiritual benefactor and consummate protector of Harvard tradition...
What about the plastic protector...
...story, adapted from a short novel by the Honore de Balzac, follows a soldier named Augustin Robert (Ben Daniels) who is sent to Egypt in 1798 as the guide and protector of Jean-Michel (Michel Piccoli) an important artist/historiographer. Jean-Michel is on an official mission to draw, measure and document the cultural landmarks of the Egyptian dunes. Of course, the military party with whom he travels are little concerned with monuments or cave-drawings. They have been yanked from their homes and families to conduct a miserable campaign against the Mameluke Dynasty, marching around the desert with their camels...