Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private capital abroad gets into local squabbles, the State Department is usually the first to "take it easy" or "do not strain relations at this time," etc. When the banana-republic dictator Nasser decided to nationalize someone else's Suez Canal, nations prepared for war in order to protect it, but we succeeded in helping to give it to the nationalizing thief...
Last March, when Nigeria's Federal House of Representatives voted to seek independence, Abubakar Balewa, the Northerner, warned his countrymen against the results of such feckless politicking. "We must do all in our power," he said, "to protect our country from the civil discord and strife into which some countries-and here I am thinking of Indonesia-have fallen after achieving independence." The Colonial Office, in its anxiety to see that the transfer of power is peaceful, has an even more unhappy comparison in mind: that of India and Pakistan, whose baptism of freedom took place in a bath...
...does," snapped McClellan with a frown, "and a million and a half union members in this country have some rights that this committee has been trying to protect...
...committee his defense in a case in which he is . . . going to be on trial very shortly." Retorted Lawyer McClellan: "Let me say to you that I do not need a lecture on the law." Replied Williams: "I have been trying to the best of my lights to protect this man's rights, and he does have some rights here...
...describing cognac as the "harbinger of good appetite, a gentle agent to relax tension, a pleasant inducer of euphoria." Though it got no formal Government complaints (the association is technically outside the jurisdiction of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division), it stopped the ads in order to protect its U.S. distributors...