Word: entrenchment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have had a roof over Michigan." Had Du Pont limited the sale of Duco to G.M., that company might have run away with the auto market. But Pierre du Pont wrote Irenee du Pont in 1922 that while this step had been considered, it was vetoed; it might "entrench competition" (i.e., tie auto companies too close to suppliers) later on when others developed quick-drying finishes, thus cut Du Font's chances of selling outside...
...essential that the traditional role of the Army in these distressing times be carefully preserved-that it not be used as an instrument of tyranny or oppression -a form of pretorian guard-by those seeking to strengthen and entrench political power-but that it be used instead as a force of free men dedicated to its sworn purpose of 'defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...
...Georgia, Herman Talmadge's boys are trying to ram restricted press laws through the legislature. The Georgia newspapers see Talmadge's action as an attempt to entrench his position by one of the simplest methods: getting rid of people who don't agree with...