Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting minority of Filipinos had threatened to make the election a shambles. But the Communist-led Huk* were too disorganized to carry out the threat. The Philippine army, which had dominated past elections as the gun-twirling bully of the politicians in power, dominated this one as the disciplined protector of the voters. Politicians who had ridden into office in 1949 on the votes of "the trees, the birds, the insects and the monkeys" could this time use only human votes...
...relevant facts of a musical event; (2) as a teacher placing musical works in a relation to other works and to the cultural and intellectual climate of the times; (3) as an evaluator, stating his opinions both of the music itself and its performance; (4) as a champion and protector of musical life in his community and of the composer; and (5) as a provocative entertainer, holding the interest of the reader and compelling him to think for himself...
...ground that he may have some truth, or near truth, to offer which can not be had elsewhere, and if Dr. Conant will say, before having heard the Communist, that he does not, cannot, have some truth to offer, then I say that he has forfeited his role as protector of free thought and expression in the university and should yield to a men who will defend these basic freedoms. Robert Wolff...
...insure small business "a full part" in mobilization, he expects to set up SDPA offices in Washington and around the nation, although he is "hopeful of keeping our Washington staff below 200." But small business, already in the arms program up to its-ears, hardly seems to need a protector. Of the current military spending, small businessmen are getting 21% in prime contracts, 35% more through subcontracts, e.g., General Motors alone subcontracts to 12,500 other companies. Companies with fewer than 500 employees are enjoying record rates of birth, survival and growth. Next year a tighter squeeze in metal supplies...
Heydrich, Nazi boss of Czechoslovakia. The Nazis shot all of the village's 175 men, sent its women to concentration camps, demolished its houses. The Czechs did not forget Lidice. At war's end, they tracked down the "Butcher of Lidice," Karl Herman Frank, former Nazi protector of Bohemia and Moravia, hanged him with six of his Gestapo henchmen...