Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...their women, keeping the much-too-heavy drugs for themselves. At TDA, women running the demonstration asked everyone not to trash. Some men retorted, "No mother-fuckin" woman is going to tell us when we can trash or not." So they threw the bricks and scurried back to protect their women. But women's affinity groups didn't need protection, or the shit which trashers were bringing down on everybody. Zap. Who were the Chicago 7? Seven white middle-class males who had driven to leadership in various segments of the movement. Who was doing the trashing at TDA? Mostly...
...satire. Perelman finds himself ignored, insulted, and humiliated by a series of British clerks, in what appears to be a conspiracy to make the customer suffer. He discovers by accident that it is all the work of a company called "Creative Humiliation Associates, Ltd.," which teaches clerks how to "protect" themselves from the customers. "Well, we teach em the dynamics," the manager explains, "woolgathering, disdain, the snub direct and implied, Schadenfreude, the mechanics of sniggering, simple and compound exacerbation-the lot." But all is not lost-they're planning a course for customers as well...
...other war," has been waged in one guise or another since the days of the French. In the 1950s there was the abortive agroville program of agricultural resettlement. In the early 1960s came the U.S. concept of "strategic hamlets," which were meant to fortify rural areas to protect peasants from Communist attack. By 1966 President Johnson was referring to pacification as "the other war," or "the struggle to win the hearts and minds of the people." Whatever its name, the object of pacification for nearly two decades has been to wrest rural areas from Viet Cong control and bring them...
Harvard's Messing made several spectacular saves to protect that early lead. The mud in the penalty area made running almost impossible, but Messing consistently came far out of the goal to break up the Dartmouth attack...
...freshmen games scheduled in the Stadium are subject to change due to weather conditions. In the event of inclement weather, the game is moved to one of the practice fields to protect the turf in the Stadium...