Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill on which Franklin Roosevelt and the War Department had given the go-ahead just five days earlier. Almost impersonally he began: "This Congress is going to be judged by what we do today, as to whether we have preserved our trust-as to what we do to protect America today. We should vote with vision and courage. If we lose this war, we do not retain our country, the country we all love...
...find a priest. Back with them to hold the funeral, over the vast distance where only six groups of white men had been in 110 years, came 37-year-old Father Gustav Henry of Brittany, a missionary to the Eskimos. Back, too, came scores of his converted Eskimos, to protect him from harm...
...method of fighting malaria-commonest disease on earth-is being used to protect the residents of Delhi, India's capital, and the U.S. troops quartered there from the epidemic now raging among the 100,000,000 people of northwest India. Gangs of trained workmen go from house to house all day spraying a mixture of pyrethrum insecticide (5%) and kerosene (95%) on the walls and rafters where the night-flying mosquitoes rest. The sprayers are all lads of good caste, so no highborn Hindu will be outraged by their attentions to his residence, outhouse and cowshed, each of which...
...grizzled, hard-bitten veteran of World War I, Colonel George F. Unmacht, Hawaiian Coordinator for Civilian Gas Defense, is the creator of the bunny mask. With a Jap gas attack always a dread possibility, Colonel Unmacht decided that he "wanted something that would temporarily protect very young children from the effects of poison gas until they could be removed from the gas area." His emergency solution was to set the women stitching together sacks which, when impregnated with gas-resistant chemicals, could be drawn over infants' heads and tied tightly at the bottom. But how would a child like...
...Russians, too, showed confidence. The Grozny fields had not yet been scorched. Here, midway between the Caspian and Black Sea, they were making a stand not only to protect Grozny's oil, but also to guard the main routes into the heart of the Caucasus and the richer Baku oilfields. Southwest of Grozny lies industrial Ordzhonikidze, terminus of the only two highways scaling the lofty range near its center. Both highways, the Georgian and Ossetian military roads, are tortuous, treacherous routes that mount 10,000 feet through gorges giving every advantage to the defender...