Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yard police--one of whom had his hat removed by the costume bunny during the Union rally--took a few names. Later in the night, however, they promised to take no action, explaining, "We just want to protect you students from the Cambridge police...
After a nine-month pregnancy, the Senate Judiciary Committee has delivered itself of Mr. Mundt's new bill "to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities, and for other purposes." The bill is one of the most comprehensive threats to civil liberties that the gentleman from South Dakota has yet conceived...
...protect itself, the city was trying to get a bill passed banning damage suits based on artificial rains. The Republican administration countered with a bill which would give the state complete control over all artificial rainmaking. Undisturbed by such legalisms Meteorologist Howell pressed on with his plans, hoped to begin "stimulating" clouds this week. If his rainmaking solved New York's shortage, it might affect the fortunes of all the world's cities. If the competition became keen, it would also raise a horrendous lawyer's question: Who owns the clouds...
...thinking. "We are not dealing here," said Acheson, "with the kind of situation where we can go from one country to another with a piece of litmus paper and see whether everything is true blue. The only question we should ask is whether they are determined to protect their independence against Communist aggression...
Husk and Fraser are not dazzled by the millions of dollars of property they protect. They always remember that "the kids come first." Indeed, it is often the kids who turn in timely alarms. The University switchboard hooks up directly with the Cambridge fire station across the street. University engineers, janitors, maids, and proctors turn in their share of the 10 to 12 alarms that the Cambridge firemen receive from the University in an average year...