Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First of all are the civil liberties of the individual summed up in the Bill of Rights. Second would be the political machinery which enables the mass of the people to decide through elected representatives on major issues. Third, the written laws and constitutions which, together with tradition, protect the rights of the minority on the one hand, and prevent sudden guests of popular opinion from altering the structure of society on the other...
...Terrace Village, $14,000,000 project of the U. S. Housing Authority, he gave the keys of a four-room apartment to Steelworker Lester Churchfield, with a brief, extemporaneous speech on the meaning of housing and defense: "As long as they know that their Government is sympathetically working to protect their jobs and to better their homes, we can be confident that if the need arises the people themselves will wholeheartedly join in the defense of their homes and the defense of democracy...
...Episcopal Church of the U. S. when its bishops, clergy and laity met last week for its 53rd triennial General Convention in Kansas City. Like the U. S., Episcopalians have problems of foreign policy: how to cope with the Japanese, what to do about aid to Britain, how to protect their investments (missionary enterprise) abroad, how to cooperate with other churches. Like the U. S., they also have domestic problems: the financing of a crisis-upped budget, family relationships, youth problems, how to safeguard their conscientious objectors and support U. S. preparedness. Above these rises the crucial spiritual question...
...hour after the registration began President Roosevelt went down into the basement of the White House and told the registrants that they were being called to protect peace and democracy against those "who have dared to threaten the whole world with...
Schoolboys Protect Early Lead...