Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble for a Career. "Everyone was either for us or against us," Siqueiros remembers. The painters had to carry guns to protect themselves and their work. They all lived in tenements in the center of town, partying, painting and loving violently. Siqueiros' love-life was characteristically impetuous; he had a long succession of lady friends...
...they maintain the credibility of the Pipit throughout--in fact, so important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed to protect the specimen for future science are convincing earmarks of a vital struggle. The dangers of disturbing tanks and black-faced egg-stealers are treated with all the consideration accorded the Dieppe incident, yet the contrast of War vs. Pipit is handled so skillfully that realism is never misplaced...
...time Kentucky's citizens demand a revision. . . . A child of 13 . . . should not be governed by the same laws which apply to adult citizens. . . . We [have written] a letter of protest to the Kentucky state legislature, and hope that other decent citizens will do the same, to help protect our country's children from such medieval laws...
...pocket model was developed by Dr. O. G. Landsverk and two aids as a wartime device (e.g., to protect troops in such hazardous spots as blasted Hiroshima). The military now thinks it is all right for civilians to know about it. The instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move...
...actually contained most of these ideas, for they gave Federal courts full jurisdiction to maintain the equality of the races before the law, and banned discrimination in hotels, public conveyances, and places of amusement. Unfortunately, a Supreme Court which believed that the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to protect corporate rather than individual personalities ruled these laws unconstitutional...