Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet security required neighboring governments to be "loyal." In any case, said Stalin, Churchill "rudely and shamelessly libels not only Moscow" but her neighbors, in making such a statement. Germany had been able to overrun all these countries while they were "inimical to the Soviet Union." Russia wanted to protect them and herself by bringing them into her own safe sphere, and "how can one, without having lost one's reason, qualify these peaceful aspirations . . . as 'expansionist tendencies...
...Pauley, the onetime oil field mucker who pulled himself into politics "to protect and advance my business operations," knew he was beaten. His good friend Harry Truman also knew that there was no hope ever for Pauley's confirmation as Under Secretary of the Navy...
...happened. Under Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall said isolated cases of wanton destruction were "unavoidable." The services made no secret, however, of their feeling that surplus property was a growing nuisance. Said Royall: "If anything, [the Army] is spending too much money and too many man-hours to protect property of doubtful value." And General MacArthur had already told Washington that if he could ship back surplus goods, he could demobilize men held overseas only to guard stockpiles...
Something which never really existed was formally ordered out of existence last week. In 1926 Belgium wanted to protect the Belgian franc from the skidding of the French franc (the two currencies had long been interchangeable). So Belgium established the belga, worth five francs...
...book, The Origins of Some Naval Terms and Customs, Lieut. Commander R. G. Lowry, R.N., writes as follows: A neckerchief usually of black silk was worn around the neck, and was sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship...