Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely by personal malice and domestic intrigues, they gravely damaged any hope of a united Europe, flung back the proffered hand of friendship from their ancient foe, and jeopardized their own safety. Their decision-if it stood-left France in the position of a ward, for other nations to protect and to defend. And even if the Assembly reversed itself this week in response to the world's shocked reaction, the memory of its first performance would remain...
Said the report: "The organized home-building and financing industries must share with the FHA responsibility for abuses and irregularities under the National Housing Act. While only a relatively few members of the industry were involved . . . the national [industry] associations consistently acted to protect this minority . . . Instead of giving us their wholehearted support . . . these associations devoted themselves to justifying the activities of an unscrupulous few. "Among the abuses cited...
...defense is thus essential to protect SAC's striking power and the American people (last week a mock atomic attack on Denver left 47,000 assumed dead). "If SAC is to remain an effective deterrent, it must be reasonably secure against enemy attack on its bases," said the No. 1 U.S. airman, General Nathan Twining. "One grand-scale atomic blow by the Soviets on our industrial and population centers could be decisive...
...Figure it out for yourself," said Chidlaw. "More than 3,000,000 square miles of territory to protect, 10,000 miles of border to guard, and a fence to build ten, eleven or twelve miles high." He has, however, a growing supply of fence-including stakes and spikes:¶ More than 100 radar warning stations staffed by 10,000 airmen. ¶ Some 13,000 ground-observer posts manned by 370,000 civilian volunteers. ¶ Fifty-odd fighter squadrons equipped with more than 1,200 jet interceptors in the 600-m.p.h. class...
...electronic eye can be endlessly boring. Radar sites are usually remote and lonely. Permanent stations, costing $5,000,000 each to build and $500,000 yearly to run, are surprisingly elaborate. Example: "Mother Goose," a warning site about 65 miles east of Albuquerque, N. Mex., is set up to protect the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory...