Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the world of Miss Weekes, Mr. Stevenson and 58 English schoolboys seemed to explode. The headmaster flung himself on top of one of his pupils to protect him as bricks and timber crashed...
...first time Hurricane fighters, adapted for use from carriers which seldom can be spared for convoy duty, were used successfully to protect a convoy from land-based aircraft...
...blue Pacific, plunk on the Equator, the U.S. now has an outlying bastion to protect the Panama Canal. Last week the State Department told how the U.S. had acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches...
...mandated Marshalls, 1,200 miles eastward toward Hawaii, protect Truk on one side. The rest of the Carolines surround the Truk group itself: many & many a tiny island like Makin may offer no real protection, but does insure the Japs of ample warning of assault upon Truk...
...roared homeward, landing safely while our top cover stayed up to protect us. But the Japs did not come...