Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sturdy Protector. Aside from their hunters' ineptness and their own evasive skill, migrating waterfowl have another sturdy protector: the game laws of almost every country that they pass over. Unlike the fisherman, the duck hunter cannot throw back the one he takes just for kicks; carefully calculated hunting seasons and bag limits guard the birds from overenthusiastic sportsmen...
...terror are subject. Those who resist corruption fall victims of violence . . . The sight of Rubens Vaz lying in the street . . . prevents me from analyzing coldly at this moment the hideous ambush of tonight. But before God I accuse only one man as responsible for this crime. He is the protector of thieves, whose impunity gives them audacity for acts like this one tonight. This man is Getulio Vargas . . . Rubens Vaz died in the war ... of the unarmed against the bandits who constitute the Getulio Vargas government...
...orange juice with the Premier of France, this suave, well-mannered ex-terrorist calmly disposed of nations and peoples (see below). He promised grandly that the French could keep a "cultural interest: in Indo-China. France would keep little else. Chou put it diplomatically: China wanted to be the protector of all three independent Indo-Chinese states. In a matter of months, thousands of gallant Vietnamese who had pledged their lives to the free world's promises would be handed over by default to their ruthless enemies...
...chief of state is ex officio co-ruler of Andorra, a tiny (pop. 5,200) feudal principality of happy, Spanish-speaking shepherds and smugglers nestling amid the peaks of the Pyrenees. This amiable sharing of rulers has not prevented Andorrans from quarreling almost continuously with their big neighbor and protector to the north. Last week they were at it again, and, as both co-Prince of Andorra and President of the Republic of France, blinking, kindhearted Vincent Auriol was in the middle...
King Ibn Saud claims Buraimi as part of Saudi Arabia; and Britain, as "protector" of Trucial Oman, claims it for a Trucial Oman Sheik and the Sultan of Muscat. Since the summer of 1952, the claimants had fought their siege with angry words and glowering looks. Ibn Saud sent Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan to occupy Buraimi, supposedly in answer to an appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into...