Word: protectors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week as Hathifah, swathed in costly clothes and jewels, embarked by ship with her protector for the bright lights of Hong Kong, the girl's grandfather, from his wooden hut outside Kuala Lumpur, revealed the news that the pair were married two weeks ago in a proxy ceremony lasting five minutes. The Sultan was irate that the news got out, and would not say which if any of his previous wives he had divorced in order to stay inside the Islamic maximum. But Grandpa felt he had to tell all; otherwise there would be talk about his granddaughter...
...Lord Protector's well-embalmed head has not had a reposeful history. In 1660, two years after the 59-year-old Cromwell died in his bed (of a fever), the House of Commons, full of the heady days of the Restoration and Charles II, directed that his body be disinterred and hanged. The cadaver dangled on a gibbet all day long on the twelfth anniversary of Charles I's execution, then was cut down and decapitated; the body was buried under the gallows at Tyburn (near London's present Marble Arch), the head stuck on a pike...
...stated that the British commonwealth has been strongest when it is in the position of "paternal protector of backwards people" but that in dealing with new nations such as Ghana, when "the relations becomes one of equals, it is not very good...
...votes, the first governor in 32 years elected in his first try. He has since firmly refused to make speeches on the segregation issue, either inside or outside Mississippi. And no scholar is quicker to remind the South that during Reconstruction the Supreme Court was its friend and protector...
During the world crisis of last fall the U.S. turned to the U.N. "as a protector of small nations," and the U.N. was "able to bring about a cease-fire and withdrawal of hostile forces from Egypt because it was dealing with governments and peoples [i.e., the British, French and Israelis] who had a decent respect for the opinions of mankind." But not so the Soviets, who had ignored the U.N.'s repeated resolutions for withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. "Therefore," said the President, "the U.N. can always be helpful, but it cannot be a wholly dependable protector...