protector

Almost everyone reading this will recognize the slender, ponytailed figure who became a close friend and protector of the simian species most closely related to ours.

Dogs are wired to be our protectors and yet, through generations of nurturing, they’ve come to trust that we’ll also protect them.

“A protector,” he mutters to himself in unison.

“He was my protector and he was my first boss,” Townshend says.

The services of a life-preserving, ego-boosting retinue of intimidating protectors — picture dark glasses, earpiece, stern visage — were cited by more than one Harris associate, past and present, as a factor in her deliberations.