Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon plans to protect its nuclear missiles
...many people who wish to leave but now cannot. To cut the refugee flow, the Vietnamese have stepped up police patrols along their coasts, and some Western representatives at Geneva now fear that Hanoi is violating some of the same human rights that the conference was convened to protect...
...Holy Office also had a voice on external matters. In 1949 he signed the decree excommunicating Catholics who joined or aided the Communists, but with very little effect. In a 1953 speech that outraged Protestants, Ottaviani declared that rulers of predominantly Catholic states had a duty to protect "the religious unity of a people who unanimously know themselves to be in secure possession of religious truth." Vatican II rejected such thinking. Years later, he publicly denounced Pope Paul's reformed Mass as "nearly heretical...
...fragile sands. During the first great Florida land boom in the early 1920s and the second boom of the 1950s, the beach's problems were compounded by unrestrained growth. Developers put up mansions, hotels and condominiums almost at the water's edge, atop the dunes that protect the island from the lash of the sea. After a devastating hurricane in 1926, many property owners erected groins, jetty-like projections, some of them stretching 150 ft. into the water. They had two purposes: to provide privacy and to prevent sand from being washed away from one place to another...
...lifted. And Mac Davis, despite his musical talent--or lack thereof--turns in an engaging performance as the team captain, alternately whooping it up with the players and then conforming to the wishes of the management. Davis is everyone's good buddy, the guy whose final compromise--to protect himself--hurts the most...