Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Virulent Germ." In Washington, guards were increased at the White House; at the Capitol, admission to the galleries was rigidly restricted. Congressmen, with a prickly sensation in their napes, pondered how to protect themselves against assassins. Speaker Martin called in all old guest cards to the galleries...
Besides being monstrously strong, said G.E., the perfect iron crystal does not rust like ordinary iron. The same orderly structure that makes it strong seems to protect it from oxidation...
...saying: "Senator McCarthy will better serve his cause if he learns to distinguish the role of investigator from the role of avenging angel . . . There was ... no reason to doubt the general's good faith. There is nothing ... to suggest that he was a party to a conspiracy to protect Communists . . . Senator McCarthy's behavior toward General Zwicker . . . has injured his cause of driving the disloyal from the Government service." The Tribune, no doubt, will return to the McCarthy corner, but its editorial was a sharp warning that no large group of Republicans will put up with...
With Government Money. But what has McCarthy to lose? He is not running for President. He has no organized following to nourish and protect. His Senate seat is safe for five more years. He runs unhandicapped by responsibility and even by the heavier forms of ambition. What he thirsts for is what he got last week−a sense of personal power, personally wielded, a centripetal force that brings men to his doorstep and makes responsible officers of Government turn in their tracks before his onslaught. A President cannot do that. A Senator, McCarthy's kind of Senator...
...Sammons, 64, took formal steps to make the book an institution. Sammons, a Pickwickian-looking arbiter of fame who considers listing in his book to be roughly the American equivalent of making the Queen's Honors List, set up a nonprofit foundation with a board of trustees to protect Who's Who's integrity and put its profits into biographical research. Explained Editor Sammons: "I never want Who's Who to fall into irresponsible hands...