Word: protected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Eastern European federation might be able to protect its bosses from the Kremlin's reach. Therefore Moscow wanted to coordinate the policies of Eastern European countries through Communist Party machinery, which it can control, rather than through Eastern European governments. As Pravda explained: "What [these states] do need is consolidation and protection of their independence and sovereignty through mobilization and organization of their domestic democratic forces, as has been correctly stated in the known declaration of the nine Communist Parties...
...weekend matches, the racquet squad will be out to protect its undefeated record, which already includes victories over Dartmouth, McGill, and Toronto. Crimson players on the trip are Adam Foster, Bill Wightman, George Stevens, Lane McGovern, and Jim McKittrick...
...Queen Elizabeth's sister battleship Valiant fought at Jutland in World War I; through the good & bad days of World War II she did heavy duty helping to protect the Empire's precarious lifeline in the Mediterranean...
...building will house 1,500 tenants (330 families) in spacious duplexes, all prefabricated and slipped into place like drawers into an empty desk. The outer walls will be mostly glass, and finlike shades will protect them from the Mediterranean sun, a stunt Le Corbusier had tried in Rio de Janeiro. "Just as the human eye can stand the sun because it has eyelashes," says Le Corbusier, "rationally oriented sunbreaks will admit only those rays that bring pleasant warmth and cheer in every season...
...protect the Nationalist hold on the Tientsin-Kalgan corridor, the Generalissimo last November dispatched one of his crack generals, Fu Tso-yi. While Fu prepared an offensive, Communist demolition squads struck swiftly and by night. They made 100 small breaks in the railroad. Fu chased them away and repaired the breaks; but he had lost valuable time...