Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest constitutional crises the country has ever faced," said the American Bar Association, and argued that the Bricker Amendment should be passed to protect the Union from dire peril...
...water surrounding the rods. Thus the whole reactor, including the big tank that held the heavy water, was contaminated. The reactor could not be rebuilt until the tank had been properly taken care cf. With an announcer barking orders over a public-address system, men in gas masks and protective clothing started the ticklish operation of jockeying the dangerous tank out of the reactor's concrete shield. The crane that lifted it had a shielded cab to protect its operator. In 30 minutes the tank was lowered into its canvas shroud, to be towed to a deserted spot...
FCDA is correct in saying that its shelters will protect some people, who happen to live in wooden houses at the proper distance from an explosion that does not set the houses on fire or spray them with radioactivity. Not all atom bombs will conform to such conditions...
...condemned to death tens of millions of innocent people all over the world . . . When democracy's enemies have been judged guilty of a crime as horrible as that of which the Rosenbergs were convicted, when the legal processes of democracy have been marshaled to their maximum strength to protect the lives of convicted spies, when in their most solemn judgment the tribunals of the U.S. have adjudged them guilty and the sentence just, I will not intervene in this matter...
...What had begun as an idealistic adventure became a begrudged duty. General Van Fleet stoutly insisted that the enemy could be defeated militarily inside Korea, but once the enemy insisted on truce talk (which went on & off fruitlessly for two of the three years), U.N. instructions were to protect their lines and avoid excessive casualties...