Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand strategic scale, the whole Allied effort between Luxembourg and Switzerland seemed also a diversion. It forced the Germans to protect the Saar, the Moselle approach to Trier and Coblenz, and the Lorraine gate to Karlsruhe, while the heaviest blows of the new winter drive are delivered in the north...
...newsmen. He read a statement: "It's clear that Mr. Roosevelt had been re-elected for a fourth term, and every good American will wholeheartedly accept the will of the people. ... [I devoutly] hope that in the difficult years ahead, divine Providence will guide and protect the President of the United States...
...free competition but we don't really practice what we preach. We moralize about the competitive way, and then cling to tariff schedules so high that foreign businessmen cannot enter the U.S. market. . . . A sizable part of American business will want to join cartels after the war to protect its domestic market, and . . . popular opinion will back such a move [because] we are still under the delusion that the way to be prosperous is to sell as much as we can abroad and to buy as little as we can from abroad...
...whites who have bravely taken the Negro's part (sheriffs who have braved mobs to protect Negro prisoners, women who have leagued against lynching, trade-union organizers who have risked life & limb), the authors pay tribute. But Negroes, says Dr. Gordon B. Hancock, are bewildered by the number of sympathetic whites whose "finer feelings are obscured beneath a lack of moral courage ... a kind of 'Pontius Pilatism.'" The more cynical Negroes merely conclude that the saving grace of the white man is "his lack of unanimity in any program ... of oppression...
Woman is also the stronger sex. Though her muscular strength is only half that of a man, she is a much more efficient organism for survival. Her hormones protect her better against illness and shocks. Boys are more likely to inherit physical defects; a third more of them are blind; eight times as many are colorblind; hemophilia is exclusively a male disease. Although women have a 20% higher illness rate in almost every disease, men have a much higher death rate (an exception: 40% more women die during the course of dementia praecox...