Word: protected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rivals for the Ilocos congressional seat in Manila. One is the Liberal Party's Floro Crisologo, who served three terms, then lost to his enemy, Nacionalista Congressman Faustino Tobia. "Sure, I give my boys guns," admits Tobia (whose uncle is wanted for murder). "They need them to protect themselves, don't they?" Crisologo is equally frank: "I don't deny it. We kill Tobia's men. But we kill only one to every four or five of our own killed by his goons. We should get medals...
...protect children from whatever may harm them," says the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. "We are weary of being told that although a steady diet of aggression and violence may be harmful to children, there is no evidence to show that it really is ... Must we wait for statistical and clinical proof?" Last week in its magazine, National Parent-Teacher, the congress answered the question with a resounding no, and then proceeded to publish its own clinical evaluation of the shows children watch on TV. A sampling...
Last week, like pennant losers looking forward to next year, homeowners across the U.S. besieged garden stores for poison to kill off this year's waning crab grass, spades and shovels to dig it out of their lawns, sturdy seed to protect them against its ravages again in the spring. In Chicago, Vaughan's Seed Co. estimated that its 1959 lawn chemical sales are running 50% ahead of last year. In Marysville. Ohio, O. M. Scott & Sons, biggest U.S. lawn supply house, looked forward to a $30 million year, up $6,600,000 over record 1958. Said...
...bird man has done it, too, in Des Moines, Wichita, Louisville, and his home town, Great Bend, Kans. His fees are staggered to protect the customer: the Indianapolis job was worth $2,500-half is paid, and half is still to come if the birds do not return. The Mount Vernon contract calls for $4,000 in three installments...
...another era, intervention to protect national interests was accepted international practice, and the U.S. (having in the Monroe Doctrine forbidden Europe from intervening in the Western Hemisphere) used the doctrine at San Juan Hill, on the Isthmus of Panama, and in several other Caribbean countries where U.S. property and business were threatened. Then, bowing to Latin American opinion and cries of "dollar diplomacy," the U.S., under Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt, abandoned intervention, first in practice (the troops were withdrawn from three countries) and then in principle (the U.S. signed the 1936 nonintervention agreement of Buenos Aires). Today the principle...