Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation later, notes Greene, "most of the guilt that 'it I happened here' has disappeared. Dallas (and this includes the people who have become residents since 1963) now feels it is the guardian, the protector, if you will, of the history of the event...
...guard aboard an athletes' shuttle bus radioed that they were being followed by a suspicious car. In swooped the highway patrol and a sheriffs helicopter. The lawmen arrested a man, who explained his cache of weapons and explosives by describing himself as "a warrior of the people" and voluntary protector of the athletes. He was held for psychiatric evaluation...
Critics of the Democrats have maintained that the oldtime liberalism is dead. This is nonsense. The advancement toward social justice and decency has been led by Democrats. The methods for reaching this end may have shifted, but the principle of Government as protector of the disadvantaged must never change...
...creating demand for goods and services. It took World War II to really spur production and cure the Depression, but by then F.D.R. had won a victory of the spirit. His programs attacked not only poverty but helplessness. The poor and dispossessed began to feel that Government was their protector...
...songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people (out of a population of 234,000) went to the funeral. A century later, a punk rocker named Jello Biafra ran for mayor and finished fourth among ten candidates. Rudyard Kipling wrote that San Francisco was "a mad city-inhabited...