Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such thing as maximum military security short of total mobilization of all our national resources. Such security would compel us to imitate the methods of the dictator . . . There is, I believe, only one honest, workable formula . . . a defense strong enough both to discourage aggression and beyond this to protect the nation-in the event of any aggression-as it moves swiftly to full mobilization...
With Hitler's coming, Providence presented Rabbi Baeck with his most staggering task. In March 1933, the leaders of German Jewry elected him president of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland to represent the Jews and protect them from the Nazis...
...hundred years after Scottish Physician James Lind published A Treatise of the Scurvy, proving that citrus juices would protect sailors, world-famed nutritionists gathered in Edinburgh at the unveiling of a plaque in his memory. Lind died 137 years before the secret of his triumph was found in vitamin C. The thrifty Scots never did much to honor him: his plaque was by courtesy of Sunkist...
Perhaps the author of the challenge feared recrimination from Mr. Dorgan. Since it has been CRIMSON policy to protect its correspondents from recrimination, the author might be excused for not signing his name. I suggest, however, that a man who submits to the fear of recrimination is in no position to recommend action. Unsigned words, to my mind, have little effect. I wonder what might have been the course of history had the names been withhold by request from the Declaration of Independence...
...asks, "Why should we in the North not show the backbone of the teachers in California who refused to take the oath?" It seems ironic somehow for a man who calls for a showing of backbones to show so blatantly his own backside. The CRIMSON in its attempt to protect its letter writers from recrimination, has been deceived into protecting the timorous. --William Mitchell...