Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people to believe that in the end the British Navy will pass easily to you. We in Britain shall certainly fight to the end to defend our country . . . [but] quite apart from the difficulties that would arise, if you were neutral, of handing over a fleet designed to protect the British Commonwealth to a power which could not use it for that belligerent purpose, there would be little left over for you. ... I am not concerned today to attempt to tell you what you should do in this grave matter. That is your business. But I am concerned that...
Next the Foreign Office demanded maintenance of the status quo in French Indo-China-i.e., no one should take it but Japan, not even Japan's friends Germany and Italy. Louder & louder grew the cry among extreme nationalists in Tokyo that Japan should occupy and "protect" the territory, and thus snip both outside intervention and the China supply line...
...death last July had dogged away at naval preparedness. "Mr. Swanson and I seem to vibrate on the same plane and he speaks to me often," said Mrs. Pressing. "One point, upon which he lays much stress, is the importance of our Coast Guard. His plea is, 'Protect our shores!' " Two famed victims of World War I, Aviator Quentin Roosevelt and Nurse Edith Cavell, have also advised the Spiritualists about World War II, in somewhat fainter terms. Said Pilot Roosevelt: "All will be well for those who keep their mental and spiritual balance." Nurse Cavell materialized...
...minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten miles at the request of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The doctor, who fasted for eight days prior to the race to "get the poison out of his system," had no S. P. C. A. to protect him. He just loped along, stopping now & then for orange juice or an oily rubdown...
Texas Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler announced a plan for setting the Rio Grande on fire, to protect the U. S. against invasion from Mexico: "If only 20 wells would turn oil into the Rio Grande and the oil was then set afire, it would be impossible for any invading army to cross...