Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as Dulles had finished his prepared statement, Illinois' Tom Gordon, the soft-spoken new committee chairman, moved in with the first question. Just what countries did the President want to help protect when he spoke of the Middle East? Replied Dulles: "There is always danger in drawing a line on the map . . . There is no part of the world, I think, where any of us would want to see, in effect, the Soviet Union told 'It is all right if you take over this country; we will not mind as long as you do not take over...
...resignation is considered a show of disloyalty to the Crown, he will follow the ancient practice of disqualifying himself by applying for a job of "honor and profit" under the Crown. This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down "for the present" the Queen's prompt offer of an earldom - the customary reward...
...deeply interested in European integration, because he feels that it is bad for Britain to feel pushed around and overshadowed. Europe has been and still should be a great force in the world. Other areas have combined, and there is no reason Europeans should not combine to assert, protect and expand those valuable things for which they stand in the world. Looking to the future, Macmillan thinks that perhaps one source of increased British self-confidence will be found in closer economic and political ties with Europe. That does not mean weaker ties with...
...general physical tone, build up to exertion slowly if they're soft, certainly not refrain from snow shoveling if their only ailment is just being 70. Said the doctor with some concern: "We are already becoming a soft race dependent on gadgets which are not likely to protect our youth from the chief hazards of tomorrow...
Untertan v. Obrigkeit. Publisher Augstein, a scrappy lightweight (5 ft. 4 in., 143 lbs.) whose family had opposed both Hitler and the Kaiser, started publishing at a time when West Germany's press was still timorous under Allied controls. His announced purpose was to protect the Untertan (underdog) from Obrigkeiten, or big shots, puncture the German's traditional awe of officialdom. Sponsored by British occupation officials, Augstein's magazine blasted Allied Obrigkeiten so vociferously that he was forced to get new backing, change the magazine's name from Diese Woche (This Week). Starting out with...