Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second half, the home forces played defensively to protect their slim two-point lead, which they kept to the end of the game. Play was so tight in the last five minutes that neither team sunk a basket...
With facilities for military training within the college limited at present to a small minority, a number of undergraduates have been obtaining experience by joining local units of the Massachusetts State Guard, now being called out to protect vital points such as bridgeheads and defense factories...
...have seen in all the countries conquered by Hitler and his satellites that it is not pleasant to lose one's liberty. The attack yesterday has brought home to us more vividly than any talk of economic encroachment that no expanse of ocean, however broad, can protect us unless it is guarded by ships and guns...
Then the subs, in spite of a shot at the wrong basket by one of their members, managed to protect the lead until the end of the game...
...only would such a situation create an extremely knotty legal problem, but it would allow a revolutionary movement to gain considerable momentum, presumably enough so that it would have in the opinion of its proponents, at least, a reasonable chance of success, before the government should be allowed to protect itself. I do not believe that a government's protecting itself by means of a measure such as the Smith Act defines that government as tending towards fascism, as the president of the HLU seems to imply as he is quoted in today's issue of the CRIMSON...