Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respect, crippled or not. Twice he came to bat with runners on base, and a buzz of excitement rippled through Yankee Stadium and down the pitcher's back. Twice he banged in a run. The third time, the crowd let go an angry bellow: the Sox, trying to protect a slim lead, sent him to first base on a pass instead of letting him swing at the ball. Joe scored the run that put the Yankees out in front, anyway...
Nevertheless, the U.N. was not yet a museum piece. In the midst of crisis, the shrillest pitch of crisis in its history, the U.N. focused the world's attention. The measure of its weakness was that U.N. could not even protect its own mediator, Count Bernadotte, from terrorist murder. The measure of its strength was that every nation, including Russia, took U.N. seriously enough to maneuver vigorously to win its approval or, at least, to evade its disapproval...
...That Troublesome Zone." Count Folke Bernadotte's assassination reminded U.N. of its crucial weakness-inability to enforce its decisions or even to protect its emissaries. Secretary General Trygve Lie, looking weary after a hurried flight from Oslo, said angrily: "The murder reflects an unprecedented and intolerable lack of respect for the dignity and authority of the United Nations...
...citizens knew about their nation's developing diplomacy. But they were willing to applaud when Arthur Vandenberg warned the world not to misinterpret political differences in the U.S. After a conference with Governor Dewey, Vandenberg declared: "We are serving notice on the world that America is united to protect American rights everywhere...
...land, and of the social and economic forces that had led and pushed them. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913) he probed into the personal motives of the Founding Fathers themselves, suggested that as men of property they had been privately interested in a charter that would protect their own wealth. To older historians, such an approach was blasphemous. Harvard's grizzled Albert Bushnell Hart declared the book "little short of indecent...