Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco recognizes two limitations on sovereignty: the world organization itself and the regional systems. In our franker moments, we have always recognized that we belong to a regional system and that our safety lay in that same Colossus of the North, who was bound to protect us against aggression from outside the hemisphere. Now the world is split into legalized spheres of influence, and at San Francisco we were actually in a position of fighting for this regionalism which, in a way, we have long opposed...
...protected what we needed to protect. Holding the colonies and India will be difficult, but the charter does not make it more difficult. The trusteeships section was a ticklish business, but we got through it with no more than the verbal thrashing the Russians gave...
...unions have long conceded that World War II servicemen's time in service should be counted in figuring their seniority in their peacetime jobs. At its Chicago convention last November, C.I.O. also agreed to waive initiation fees for veterans and to protect their seniority. Most A.F. of L. unions have done the same, and for the same reason: labor wants veterans as union members, not as opponents. But this does not mean that labor, to whom seniority is as vital as private property is to business, is not ready to fight for the seniority rights of its members...
...bazooka was borrowed and Charlie noticed that the sight was broken. A runner started back to battalion headquarters for a new sight, but the attack could not wait. With two scouts on his flanks to protect him, Charlie and his bazooka loader moved forward, the men of A Company trailing cautiously behind...
...water from a silver aspergillum, the Archbishop read the blessing: "Deign. 0 Lord, to hear our supplications and bless these ships . . . and all who sail therein. . . . Extend to them Thy right hand as Thou didst to Peter walking upon the sea, and send Thy holy angel from Heaven to protect and guard them from every danger...