Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determine whether steel firms could act together on a shutout, since they do not bargain as a unit (U.S. Steel acts as the front man for the industry). But legal experts saw no clear reason why the steel industry could not legally act together on a shutout to protect itself, and the NLRB turned down the union's request because it had made no formal charges...
Supposing that we hadn't been "stripped of ... empire, economically and physically sapped . . ." by wars - in which, may I remind you, you first bled us white with "cash-and-carry" and then joined in largely to protect your investment in our future -are we to understand that you would expect us to be as anxious as the Gadarene swine to plunge to perdition...
...Protect People." Thus last week was the close-in "engagement" of U.S. forces keeping the peace, as it had for a dozen years (while some pundits talked as though peace could come only by disengagement). Thus also was the rifle-toting U.S. Army, frequently the stepchild among the military headline-getters, spotlighted as it continued its patrol of the Communist land frontiers against the backdrop of the Berlin crisis...
...Washington one of the Army's most persuasive and respected generals took the occasion of Berlin to spell out for the Senate Armed Services Committee his modern version of an old Army land doctrine. "To protect people on this earth you need to hold the land with forces on the ground." said General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer. the Army's Vice Chief of Staff last fortnight. "The addition of nuclear or thermonuclear types of weapons does not in any way replace the requirements for good manpower." The Senators listened with close attention, later confirmed President Eisenhower's appointment...
Then, in an ill-advised burst of courtesy, the Technicians sent Atkinson to the tubs and called on "Shanks Shenefield to retire the Crimeds in the ninth and protect their 2-0 lead...