Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world is full of dangerous ideas, and we are both naive and stupid if we believe that the way to prepare intelligent young men to face the world is to try to protect them from such ideas while they are in college. Four years spent in an insulated nursery will produce gullible innocents, not tough-minded realists who know what they believe because they have faced the enemies of their beliefs . . . We have confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard students. We have confidence in the strength . . . of American democracy. There is no danger from an open communist which...
...talking to death a Senate rule against filibustering. His desk was piled high, he said, turning on the old Huey quaver, with letters from the poor, the sick, the disabled, pleading for his help. But this other matter had to be taken care of first. He had to protect those same people from a change in the Senate rules "which some future oppressive group could use to grind them to dust...
...evidence . . . seems to indicate that Cardinal Mindszenty was trying to impose the will of the Church on the state . . . Regardless of the evils of Communism, it is absurd to suppose that the government has not got a perfect moral right to protect itself against all subversive efforts to overthrow it. Aren't we trying twelve Communists on exactly the same charges in our own country...
...last month, military success has been on the side of the Republican guerrillas, and the Dutch are finding their position less tenable. At the Indian meeting the formation of a Far Eastern bloc was suggested. Though rejected, it was clear proof that Asiatic nations are prepared to organize to protect their interests. Continued Dutch action has become enormously dangerous by risking alienation of such a group. To crack the whip, Senator Brewster recommended last month that ECA aid be cut-off from any nation which disregards UN directives...
Slichter urged that safeguards of the right of workers to obtain or retain union membership be written into the new law. This would not abolish the closed shop, he said, but would protect it against abuses. "The closed shop cannot be prohibited without gravely disturbing employer-union relations in many industries...