Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe, Norway has dared to look frankly into the eyes of its "war babies." Nine thousand offspring of Norwegian mothers and German fathers born during the German occupation will bear no stigma when they grow up. The children's origin will be purposely obscured in order to protect them against Norwegian resentment toward their parents...
...World War II brought at least a temporary escape from extremism. Wherever the people were free to choose, an amazing number voted against the old parties, the old leaders, the old notions that only the Right could protect them against the Left and only the Left could protect them against the Right...
Tiny, frail, Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala had successfully pleaded with State Secretary James F. Byrnes for immediate U.S. action to protect Iran's sovereignty...
...believe it possible to confide to [the Communists] many of the levers that control foreign policy: the diplomacy that expresses it, the army that sustains it, and the police that protect...
...they were conquerors-and irresistible conquerors to boot. "They have merely taken the place of the Germans," was a common French pronouncement. Many troops being redeployed from Germany arrived with a German-inspired hatred of the French. In Le Havre, where some Frenchmen began carrying truncheons at night to protect their wives and sisters from G.I. insults, a young French girl complained: "I do not know why all Americans think that all French girls will make love to anybody. I think Americans can be nice if they don't drink. But when they are drunk they are beasts...