Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here we have a great man who wanted God to help him preserve and protect civilization from something evil. The church is not accustomed to handling men of such power and masculinity...
When he had sworn to "the best of my ability [to] preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States . . . so help me God," Harry Truman bent quickly to kiss the Bibles, turned to face the crowd...
...wanting to put Germany back on her feet, as essential to European recovery. He had enraged them in the Palestine dispute by urging that the U.S. be mindful at the same time of Arab friendship. As Secretary of National Defense he stoutly defended this policy as necessary to protect the U.S.'s Middle East oil supplies and its vital chain of Middle East air bases. His critics did not give him credit for that kind of reasoning, whether it was wrong or right; they merely shouted "Wall Street...
...expect that other unions would "infringe on our jurisdiction." But he said, "if a union that should stick to clerks tries to get our warehousemen (a remark directed at the powerful C.I.O. Amalgamated Clothing Workers), we'll step in and organize the whole store to protect ourselves...
Here & there police and soldiers, armed with Sten and Bren guns, did their best to herd the homeless into improvised stockades to protect them from the blacks. From one stockade the panicked Indians tried to escape by jumping from a 500-foot cliff as a swarm of Zulus bore down on them screaming shrill battle cries...