Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eden, explained that the government had no intention of moving forces into Iran merely to protect oil installations, was reported to have won their tacit agreement. Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison announced to a cheering House of Commons that Iran would be held responsible for the safety of British nationals, reported the dispatch of the 8,000-ton cruiser Mauritius, mounting nine 6-inch guns, to lie off the port of Abadan...
...still the tough and brutal plotter, still a master of his craft. His diligent Red troublemakers and riot-prompters speckle Western Germany. His saboteurs have infiltrated West Germany so extensively in recent months that West German industrialists announced last week they were planning a mutual security program to protect their plants. His smooth exploitation of the West Germans' desire for trade and of the opportunities for smuggling was working so well that occupation authorities were considering stringent measures. As a sample, the U.S. ECA mission to Germany took steps last week to withhold 6,000,000 marks...
...coldest, wettest cast, have handled their subject with skill and resourcefulness. They shot for seven weeks in the waters off Norfolk, Key West and the Virgin Islands, used such special equipment as a seven-ton undersea camera bell, a Navy-developed underwater camera, anti-shark chemicals to protect the actors. John Tucker Battle's script wisely keeps women out of the picture, serves as a dependable framework for the action scenes that make The Frogmen an arresting movie...
...that Monday night, Dean Acheson also made the motion to send the Seventh Fleet to protect Formosa, "to my great surprise and my relief," said Johnson...
...sufficient quantity, and the men had been indoctrinated, although they were not trained Arctic troops by any means. But the very nature of that fight made it impossible for the troops to take all precautions. Men would struggle up the steep hills to drive out the Chinese and protect the column of vehicles; their feet would perspire, then they would be pinned down and the sweat would turn to ice. They had no facilities for drying socks and even changing them must have been difficult. Men arrived in Hagaru [a clearing station] with a shell of ice around their feet...