Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...community, which includes wards seven, eight and nine, has lined up on one side of the fence; across from it were wards one, two, three and eleven, which take in the Italian district around Lechmere and the poor district of North Cambridge. The "fence" was planked with promises to protect local interests...
...What can happen to prevent us from ultimately going to war, alone, against Germany, Italy, and Japan to protect our interests? The answer is too obvious: the success of the Chinese against the Japanese and the success of England against the Axis. They are fighting our fight. If they fall, we have got to take up the sword where they drop...
Last week Eire was still neutral, Britain was still without the use of the Eire bases, and Winston Churchill said: "The fact that we cannot use the south and west coasts of Ireland to refuel our flotillas and aircraft and thus protect trade by which Ireland, as well as Great Britain, lives, that fact is a most heavy and grievous burden and one which should never have been placed upon our shoulders, broad though they...
...believes, a matter of the ease or difficulty with which body heat is disposed of. In cold, dry climates the disposal is easy. This stimulates people, tends to make them grow faster, to protect them against infections. In the Dark Ages, when the Temperate Zone's climate was much warmer than now, wine grapes grew in England, cereals in Iceland, men were poor specimens-short, sluggish, easy victims of plague...
...worry if this looks as much like the end of democracy as the beginning. Says Democrat Grafton: "Secret contempt for the democratic process is revealed when use is made of the expression that we must be careful not to lose our democratic rights while fighting to protect them." His tough, all-out club-waving version of democracy would make even some New Dealers cringe. Others will recall that Huey Long in one of his prescient moments said: "When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism...