Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is my country. I am part of the melting pot. I was born here, and I want to die here, and every drop of my blood will be spilt to protect those I cherish on this American soil. I am an American first, last and always, and the American freedom shall be ours forever...
...could be a tailor-made method of "fixing" elections in the future, whenever a group in power decided to make the attempt. Only complete publicity of the names of those who choose the slate can assure that they will be responsible and answerable to their constituents, and can protect the undergraduates from the possibilities of gross misrepresentation...
...appointees the Council resolved last night no longer to make public the names of the students it selects to do its nominating. Complaints that men have been selected from politically-minded cliques and from the Council's own little family have hit home too strongly. Designed also to protect the reputations of men on the nominating committees who are put up for election by their fellow committeemen, the new censorship fails to protect the interests of the student body...
...smoke machines, now in mass production, are capable of blanketing wide areas such as the nearby Martin aircraft plant or even the entire Panama Canal to protect them from bombers. >Newest chemical grenade is a small smoke-producer that belches a cloud of green, red, purple or any other color. It was developed on the Army's demand for a method of tank identification in the dust-choked confusion of desert fighting...
...causes of absenteeism thus seem to call in question many a pet theory of liberal and labor leader. Big wages, big overtime, rigid price control to protect the workers' living standards, big unions-simply have not resulted in labor's buckling down to its job. What will do so? There is no easy answer. It is not going to be easy for labor to accept the fact that in one way or another real wages are going to be cut, yet that greater production must go on. Nor is it going to be easy to re-establish discipline...