Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung-nan may be stout aids to General Stern in Siberia...
...desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...
...denounced Leon Henderson's 5% raise weasel and the whole attempt to keep wages in hand as "unfair . . . intolerant ... a victory for Hitler." Thus he gave the nation the spectacle of its No. 1 labor leader taking pot shots at a Government program primarily designed to protect labor's own standard of living...
...desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...
...even uniforms. Yet even experts agree that a home guard has a real function. A modern enemy attacking a coast lands not only on the shore, but far inland. Defense must be in a depth, not of 30 or 40 miles, but of 200 or perhaps 400. To protect the whole area with an army is prohibitively expensive in men and materiel. Only a civilian force of guerrillas naturally spread throughout the area, can take the sting out of surprise and speed until the regulars get there. The school at Middlesex may lead, as in Britain, to an integrated Home...