Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to relief from the 50-50 agreement, the British delegation, headed by Sir William Strang, was expected to ask Washington for relaxation on certain clauses in the loan agreement. The British wanted to continue empire trade preference and to protect dwindling dollar balances by restrictions on the convertibility of sterling into dollars. At best, such concessions could only relieve, not cure, Britain's economic ills. The circle of economic conferences came back to Paris' Grand Palais and the Marshall approach because of one appalling fact about the postwar world economy: Britain and other nations last year bought...
...morning, the dream blonde turns up in real life. Followed by an unmistakably lethal type, she boards Mitty's commuters' train and persuades him to protect her. By now Mitty isn't sure which world he is at large...
Anxious as ever to protect their young from the doctrinal indifference of the secular world, the delegates resolved that the Synod should aim during the next 25 years to get 50% of its children into parochial schools. Present percentage: 27.8%, in 1,090 parochial schools. For Missouri Synod Lutheran theological students they voted a new $1,500,000 senior college. They also agreed to raise $2,500,000 for world relief...
...believe in-and I conceive the Constitution of the United States to rest, as does religion, upon-the fundamental proposition of the integrity of the individual; and that all Government and all private institutions must be designed to promote and to protect and defend the integrity and the dignity of the individual...
...that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...