Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be helpful if you would explain to the large number of the nation's 80 million life insurance policyholders who read TIME that we did it for them. Insurance generally is written and priced to protect the ordinary person from the usual hazards. If we were suddenly to accept a large number of new policyholders with a special potential hazard, it might be at some jeopardy to the protection of the 80 million. Our view is that all the people . . . should underwrite the war hazard, just as all the people pay the other costs...
...Davis and Jimmy Wright had been told where to dig their foxhole, and where and when to fire their weapons. Their task was to protect a supply road between Masan and Chindong. Their captain had placed them on a rocky crag 1,000 feet above the road, on the road's right flank. They stayed there a long time...
...Asia was a long way from Europe. But Western Europe still embodied a frightening truth: if the Russians choose to risk all-out war with the U.S., they can roll through Western Europe like a color guard crossing a parade ground. With Mao's Chinese armies to protect their rear, the Russians could throw the better part of their 175 divisions,* 25,000 tanks and 19,000 warplanes into a sweep to the Atlantic...
...jockeys, kids and carnival performers on the green grass of Epsom Downs, under a smiling summer sky. The Royal Academy voted it "Picture of the Year" in 1858, and London's National Gallery hung it in a place of honor. For decades, Derby Day was railed off to protect it from the crush, and a bobby stood constant guard near...
...last week, the announcer first tried a little gentle persuasion: "If you want the national pastime continued on your TV set, make every effort to get out here at least once in the next few days . . . Realize that a few dollars spent for tickets is a small expenditure to protect your sports investment in your TV set." Then President Mann stepped before the cameras and delivered an ultimatum: unless attendance at the ballpark perked up in a hurry, the Cracker TV broadcasts would be canceled...