Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many men in arms? Eisenhower spelled it out: in Austria and Germany the Army has the job of supervising and policing 15,000,000 civilians and destroying Germany's ability to make war; it has the same kind of job in the Pacific. G.I.s also have to protect $14 billion of U.S. property scattered around the globe. They have to roll up the bases. At home they have the job of keeping house and demobilizing their highpoint colleagues...
...idea of a collective world-up to a point. But in the conduct of Assembly business and the incessant maneuvering which went on behind the scenes, not even the Russians gave any more naked demonstrations than did Jimmy Byrnes of his intent to use the veto whenever necessary to protect U.S. prerogatives. The vigorous U.S. fight to get three of the six nonpermanent Security Council seats for the New World, two of them for her immediate neighbors, was plain power politics...
Hands & Heads. The United Nations Preparatory Commission had planned for secret ballots to protect the right of smaller countries to vote against their more powerful neighbors. Now the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic asked a show-of-hands vote in the election of the Assembly's first President. By a show-of-hands vote, the Ukraine-and all Russia-lost...
...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...
President Conant was announced as a member of a five-man committee to study controls and safeguards needed to protect United States know-how in the use of atomic energy by Secretary of State Byrnes before he left for London last night...