Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first detachment of U.S. marines since 1916 into Caribbean combat. Summoning congressional leaders of both parties to the Cabinet Room, he explained that there were more than 2,000 Americans in the Dominican Republic, and there was no other way to guarantee their safety. "Our people have to be protected, and we intend to protect them," he said...
...narrow sense, U.S. troops were there merely to protect some 2,400 terrified U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals after U.S. Ambassador William Tapley Bennett Jr. had informed Washington that Dominican authorities wanted U.S. help, that they could no longer guarantee the safety of American lives. In a much larger sense, the troops were there quite simply to prevent another Cuba in the Caribbean. What had happened, in its baldest terms, was an attempt by highly trained Castro-Communist agitators and their followers to turn an abortive comeback by a deposed Dominican President into a "war of national liberation...
...effect on the civilians, who by now were beyond recall. All day Wednesday the fighting intensified; Wessin y Wessin's troops launched assault after assault in an attempt to cross the Duarte Bridge. Each time they were driven back. President Johnson ordered the first 405 marines ashore to protect American lives at Embajador and to guard the U.S. embassy downtown. Helicopters evacuating the remaining Americans and other nationals drew rebel gunfire. Snipers opened up on the Marine company dug in around the embassy; the leathernecks fired back, killing four rebels. The Salvadoran embassy was sacked and burned; shots spattered...
...argues. "Every target hit weakens not the resolution of Hanoi to unify Viet Nam under its auspices but the resolution of the Soviet Union to stay out of the conflict. It cannot afford to remain indefinitely passive; for to do so would be tantamount to admitting that it cannot protect a small Communist nation against American military power...
...violent and funny: Toshiro Mifune massacres scores of villains, while having to outthink not only bad men but also the clan of bungling innocents whom he is trying to protect, and who keep spoiling his stratagems in their eagerness. It has most of Kurosawa's stylistic tricks: tangles of shrubbery set between you and the action; shots of different people running, connected by fast cutting; omission or understatement of the climax of a comic episode, leaving you to assume that what was going to happen, happened...