Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepared statement he said, "To the Greeks, Moly was the fabulous plant with the white flower and the black root which Hormea dug up to protect Odysseus from the charms of Circe. To the Republicans it seems to have the same use. Unable or unwilling to meet Stevenson's forthright and courageous arguments, they hope to neutralize these appeals to reason by such arguments as Professor Moley's contention that Stevenson is surrounded by an intellectual elite, and that he is talking over the heads of the people. The first charge may well be nothing mare than academic jealousy: Professor...
...What are the guys going to think about me?' he asked in pained wonder ment. 'The only B.A.R. in the whole outfit to protect them, and I couldn't see to fire it. I feel like a heel...
...Stevenson-Sparkman ticket drew praise as "a great liberal team" which would "protect the great social gains of recent years and insure new progress...
...Fish and Wildlife Service set up the Aransas Refuge on the Gulf Coast to provide a protected wintering place for the cranes. Each April, the birds head north over the Midwestern states, then disappear into their unknown nesting grounds in Canada. Each September the surviving birds return with an average total of four baby cranes. For years, bird experts have searched Canada by helicopter, on horseback, in jeeps and on foot, hoping to find the crane's nesting grounds and protect it from predators...
...tracks, Professor Rowan announced that the baby crane tracks gave proof that the area is a nesting ground for the whooping crane-the first found in Canada since 1922. Under the 1916 Migratory Birds treaty with the U.S., Canada's Wildlife Service is now bound to protect the area and do all it can to prevent the rare bird from becoming extinct...