Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suits & Coolers. The jet plane's controls, helped by hydraulic boosters against the powerful airstream, are devilishly sensitive. "The slightest movement hurls you over miles of the earth's surface as the ground blurs beneath you." Jet pilots normally wear "G-suits" to protect them from loss of consciousness. These operate automatically on the turns, keeping the pilots' blood from leaving their brains and concentrating in the lower parts of their bodies. "When you do a sudden steep turn, you are punched severely in the belly as the abdominal bladder inflates and the laces tighten around your...
...time for some decent, civilized, white men to protect the Negroes, their rights, and privileges...
...blows we made a circle off the transports at the "Canal" and when we returned ... an enemy ship was blasting away at the Australian cruiser Canberra. . . . Captain Bode made a fair and cool decision when he decided against entering the engagement, for he saw his duty was to protect American boys on the unguarded transports lying in the harbor...
Would Gonzalez' Communist pals force a change in Chilean foreign policy? No, answered Gonzalez. Chile would maintain its friendship with the U.S., would protect foreign capital and welcome more...
...idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways more attractive abroad to offset the appeal that Soviet Communism, with its racial equality and promise of economic gain, seems to have...