Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spend some time on his Virginia cattle farm and write a book, tentatively entitled Men and Decisions, about his Washington years. "It has been a privilege to have served our country for so many years," said he. "I have done the best I know how to do to protect and defend the national security, even when that was not the recognized, or easy, or popular course of action at the time. I leave with confidence that history will be just...
Obviously, reasoned the Queens, the government was really trying to eliminate competition against government beer. Determined to protect their pin money, 300 women, some with babies on their backs and all armed with sticks or pick handles, stormed the Cato Manor beer hall. They snatched glasses out of the men's hands, smashed barrels, poured hundreds of gallons of government beer on the ground. When the police arrived, they set after the cops with sticks and stones...
...that might possibly aid an enemy"-a program that discouraged "top scientific men who might otherwise have come to our country." Concluded Brattain: "I feel very strongly that most restrictions done in the name of national security turn out to be foolish . . . Don't kill the baby to protect it from the kidnapers...
...Teamsters must "protect the constitutional rights of individual members and locals in regard to elections, qualifications for office, and freedom to express views at meetings." (In the past, dissenting Teamster members have often suffered beatings and other reprisals at the hands of Hoffa bullyboys.) ¶ The Teamsters must clean up the administration and counting of union funds and properties...
...take a wife until he killed a lion, and Patricia eggs him on to fight King for her. The lion duly eviscerates the tribesman, but just as he is about to dispatch him, up runs the warden. Which to shoot? He hesitates for several paragraphs between his pledge to protect all animals and "an instinctive feeling of solidarity with [the man] rooted in the first dawn of human awareness...