Word: protectorate
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...should Claire think of Mike as anything but a nuisance or a clown? He shadows her everywhere, mangles the language and dresses like a used-car salesman at Sunday Mass. Yet she responds to his strength. Though she has a rich man to provide for her, she needs a protector. Perhaps she needs a lover. And Mike surely needs danger...
Beryl, as everyone called her, spent money when she had it and ran up bills when she did not. In important matters, which meant clothes and horses, she went first-class. She had women friends -- Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) was an early protector -- but she liked men better. Her maternal instinct was fitful at best, and her appetite for casual sex made uproarious disarray of her marriages. Blixen once wrote of her own husband Bror (who became Beryl's occasional bedmate) that "he looked down benevolently and lasciviously upon womankind and had been raised to believe that the entire world...
...owners who oppose Aquino's land-reform proposals are said to be aligning themselves with the rebels. Vice President Laurel, says David Wurfel, a Philippines expert at Canada's University of Windsor, "appears to be running for election by the military. He wants to pose himself as the civilian protector of a military regime...
...back-up hurler looked like she would have been more comfortable in her usual face mask and chest protector. Williams allowed six Crimson hits and walked four batters, as well as getting called for an illegal pitch...
...bull market has a father and protector, the honor can be claimed by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. When the Dow hit a trough of 776.92 in August 1982 and the economy seemed hopelessly trapped in a recession, Volcker and his colleagues at the Fed were convinced that interest rates had to come down. No sooner had they loosened monetary policy than investors came storming back into the market. And as interest rates kept falling, the bulls kept buying. By November 1983 the Dow had reached a high of 1287.20. For the next year, the index more or less stagnated...