Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five hours, Commons hotly debated Britain's proposed withdrawal from Egypt and the hitch in the Cairo negotiations. Churchill insisted that British troops stay in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal. Replied Bevin: "It is not a very popular thing now in international affairs to maintain troops on other people's soil. It is becoming out of fashion...
...their placards ("No peace with piecework"), chanted their songs ("Ailes is a horse thief, we shall not be moved"). As a 25-man detachment of Detroit's riot squad roared up in answer to Husband Ailes's summons, the marchers hopefully switched their lyrics: "The police will protect us, we shall not be moved." But police were moved to hustle them off-in patrol wagons...
...piece of the shell, inoculated the thin membrane inside with infectious material, sat back to study the results through a tiny "window" of melted paraffin and cover glass. The fowlpox virus throve. Subsequent tests with smallpox vaccine showed that one egg would produce enough to protect 1,000 children for life. Word of the new technique spread throughout the scientific world...
While politicians and diplomats twiddled their tongues, the bases bought with blood and fire continued to deteriorate. At Wake Island, undergoing its third build-up in five years (first by the U.S., then by the Japs, now by the U.S. again), there was not enough paint to protect the mushrooming Quonsets from the gnawing, salt-laden...
...Moscow, Generalissimo Stalin reviewed a parade of 2,000,000. Proclaimed Russia's dictator: "We should not forget for a single minute the intrigues of international reaction, which is hatching plans of a new war. ... It is necessary to be constantly vigilant, to protect, as the apple of one's eye, the armed forces and defensive power of our country...