Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Employ U.S. armed forces to help protect any Middle Eastern nation desiring help against overt aggression from "any nation controlled by international Communism," e.g., Russia or any old or new-found satellite...
...demand the approach which Acheson took towards the accusations against Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore, the lack of any outright defense of the State Department against the incursions of the Congress changed the atmosphere in the Foreign Service. From a feeling that the Secretary would at least attempt to protect their reputations, diplomats have come to realize that they are strictly on their own in any battles with Capitol Hill...
...that of many modern men. It gave him, for one thing, the emotional ability to form a kind of religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave has a vault of flat stones to protect the dead man. Beside it are flint tools and a haunch of meat for the dead man's needs. No mere brute, said Dr. Eiseley, could have such tender concern for the dead...
...NATURAL-GAS BILL is being drafted by Texas oilmen, who are readying united-front to fight federal control of field gas prices. Oilmen will push bill in next Congress, hope to lessen opposition of consumer groups by including in draft a clause designed to protect gas users against overpricing...
...begin with the sudden death of his talented older brother Jeff, who had designed and built the Tower in the West, one of the first skyscrapers in St. Louis. Six months after the fatal accident, George learns that his brother's widow is pregnant by another man. To protect Jeff's good name, he marries her and breaks the heart of true-blue Margaret Carton, who has been patiently waiting for his proposal. George now proceeds to mishandle the affairs of his stepchildren, loses control of his brother's monumental Tower in the West, is chivied...