Word: protectors
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...medal approved by Pius XII several months ago showed the Pope standing in an attitude of prayer amid the ruins caused by the first U.S. bombing of Rome last July. The old medal will be melted down, a new design drawn. Rumored theme: the Pope depicted as the protector and savior of Rome...
Nephew and heir of a fabulously wealthy speculator, Paul was handsome, broad-shouldered, faithful, devoted to Anne. At ler first girlhood dances he had been a protector among the strange, stony-faced little boys in their first dinner jackets. Anne intended to marry Paul, but would not set a date, and when he left for Chicago on business-warning her not to have a last fling in his absence-she was half relieved...
...crop protector, it is deadlier and longer lasting than other insecticides, has been found effective against potato beetles, cabbage worms, apple codling moths, Japanese beetles, aphids, fruit worms, even corn borers - against which previous insecticides have proved to be failures...
...petty Portuguese nobleman, Velazquez began to study painting at the age of twelve. As a court painter he sat at a table with the royal buffoons, received the same daily allowance as the royal barbers. But his job gave him the two things he needed most, a powerful protector and a studio of his own. He painted in it for 36 years, until he died suddenly of a fever...
That cost Charlton most of his press freedom-by policy censorship imposed from England. Through all this, Monty defended Charlton, gave only one censorship order: that there be no criticism of U.S. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. in the soldier-slapping incident: Even the News's protector has not escaped its editor's barbs. Captain Charlton wrote Monty's first Order of the Day in the desert. Thereafter the General wrote his own, but Charlton edited some of them. Said the Captain of the General: "He kept using the same old trite phrases...