Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradox, if you will, that a free society must protect within these limits those who oppose the fundamental premise on which this society is founded. Yet, to my mind, this paradox is a necessity which springs from the choice between the two conceptions of human ethics as opposite as the poles. It is a consequence of a belief in the sacrosanct nature of the individual and a rejection of the view which glorifies the collective aim. To argue that the rights of the individual are a purely utilitarian invention is to deprive the underlying American ideal of its cutting edge...
...reason for the failure of all Jap attempts to reinforce Guadalcanal strongly has been the lack of an intermediary airfield between the Bougainville group and Guadal, from which the Japs could send land-based fighters to protect convoys moving down "The Slot." At Munda, in the New Georgias, the Japs have desperately been trying to build such a field in the face of repeated U.S. air attacks...
...with armed raids crackling around his ears, the time was drawing near when President Avila Camacho might have to take action against the Sinarquistas to protect the democracy...
...sides by determined females wielding the sharp points of their umbrellas with deadly efficacy, so much so, in fact, that he claims he was forced to cower for an hour in a convenient doorway till the rush hour passed. Fervently he wished for some sort of apparatus which would protect him reasonably well from the all too accurate thrusts of the parasol brigadiers, so when he arrived back at his little den in Weld he set to work on the plans of his brainchild...
...battle of the jungle was being waged with modern weapons. Health stations had been set up far inland. More than 1,500 men were working in the Special Public Health Service, the Government organization set up to protect the workers' health. Two million tablets of atabrin had already been distributed to combat malaria. Notices telling how to guard against the jungle's dangers were being tacked on trees in the farthest jungle land by men who took small supply boats up the inland waterways. The Health Service last week reported that it was prepared to take care...