Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world leader. There is some question, however, as to what this responsibility is. Recently, Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban stated that it was the "moral duty" of this country to send arms to Israel. Admitting that, as a member of the United Nations, we do have a duty to protect Israel from invasion, the arms solution is perhaps the worst that could be conceived...
...bill's opponents denied that competition among gas producers is enough to protect consumers, on whom any increase in production rates would eventually fall. Explained Paul Douglas, in beginning a 150-page speech: "I know that the widespread publicity campaign of the oil and gas industry that 'competition' can be relied upon to protect the consumer against exorbitant prices is not supported by the evidence. It ignores the decisive fact that, unlike coal, oil, cheese, milk, beer, potatoes, copper and other commodities to which industry literature mistakenly compares gas, there is only one feasible method of distribution...
...capital of a loose federation of three largely autonomous regions: the rural Christian and pagan Eastern Nigeria of the Ibo tribesmen; the Christian and pagan West of the Yoruba, rich with cocoa profits; and the Moslem North of the Hausa and Fulani, where powerful emirs struggle to protect the traditions of a feudal past. Each section hates and distrusts the others. Her Majesty's government has offered Nigeria various plans for independence, but, says one native minister: "We are not ready...
...effect challenged Dulles' interpretation of the end of the Indo-China war, denying that Britain had ever told Dulles it would intervene. British newspapers reflected concern that a revival of "tougher" U.S. diplomacy might now be in store. "A dance of death," cried the London Daily Mail. "Heaven protect us from this edgy gambler," said the Daily Mirror, "and his careless way of making his risky throws known to all the world...
...with intent to commit a crime after he was caught sitting in his car in front of a bank with the plates covered and the motor running, John A. Martin, 50, explained to police: he wore dark glasses because he suffered from snow blindness, wore a handkerchief-mask to protect his throat, had a loaded .22 rifle in the car because he had been robbed of $300 three weeks before...