Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held out so long on the union shop. But he had a pressing reason: he wanted to get a union shop before the 1952 election. Now that the pattern of Government intervention in labor disputes is so thoroughly established, Murray feels that he needs a union shop to protect his gains in case an unfavorable Government climate may lie ahead. "We're stronger than ever before," crowed one C.I.O. executive after the settlement. "Now let them elect two Eisenhowers...
...history. Most in danger were the quasi-constitutional monarchies cultivated in the Middle East by British imperialism. They have all the trappings of democracy but little of its spirit. Middle Eastern parliaments represent the ruling classes, but not the ruled; "public opinion" is manipulated, law courts too often protect the rich against the wretched; taxation is designed to promote the greatest happiness of the smallest number; the streets can riot but not rule...
Says the preface to Blueprint for Health, with a nod to rundown slum areas: "This community has in it the seeds of contagion, contamination, human misery and criminal neglect . . . But it also has in it sources of power great enough to protect us all against the consequences of mass-living...
...idiot girl by a shepherd whom she believes to be her special saint, it called the picture "basically immorar' and charged it with condoning "indecent behavior." Chicago's police board of censors banned the film for a direct violation of law: a city ordinance designed to protect any religious group from ridicule...
Their first Salzburg gathering 30 years ago was a different story. They were ardent young musical modernists in those days, and they founded an organization for mutual support: the International Society for Contemporary Music. The charter promised that the I.S.C.M. would "protect and encourage especially those [musical] tendencies that are experimental and difficult to approach." In plain language, the society would fight to get its members' music performed...