Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would India fight to protect its northern borders? For the first time, the word "war" was on many lips. Some Indian editors were urging a military defense pact with Pakistan, and there were even suggestions that it was time to accept help from other non-Communist countries. On the northern borders, all frontier posts were transferred from the police to the Indian army, now commanded by Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who won the world's admiration in the days of the Korean armistice, when, despite Nehru's displeasure, he scrupulously directed the screening of captured Chinese...
Fortunately, to protect his eyes from the outside glare, he had long ago secured a cubicle removed from the windows. As the librarian had cheered him, it was "one of our less gay places." But the disturbance in the Square had been enough to take the full sharpness off Lucius' concentration, and before he knew what had happened, his mind was on that business down at the stadium...
Replying for the government, Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin said that in passing the law, with its strike-ending emergency machinery, Congress sought to protect the interest of all the nation...
...short grey beard, the cigar and the fierce twinkle of Berlin's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, 79, are second only to the face of Chancellor Adenauer himself as a symbol of resolution against the East German Communists. Toughness, as Dibelius well knows, is not all; he must protect the Christians in the Communist zone with plenty of canny compromise. But during the past few months, Bishop Dibelius began to feel that for the Evangelical Lutheran churches, it was all give...
IMPORT CURBS on Japanese stainless-steel flatware were ordered by President Eisenhower to protect U.S. producers. Japanese now account for 90% of all imports. New restrictions are aimed at cutting flatware imports from Japan to 5,750,000 dozen pieces; duties of 60% to 67^½% will be imposed on all imports in excess of that total...