Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these few recommendations. In making the first complete study of the federal loyalty program, the group can be of great value to the nation only if its evaluation proceeds beyond the specific kinks in the Eisenhower program to the larger question of the type of security system that will protect against subversion and, at the same time, guard the integrity of loyal employees...
Enormous Scope. The majority opinion, written by Justice Hugo Black, noted that the authors of the U.S. Constitution had set up a number of "safeguards designed to protect defendants against oppressive governmental practices." One of these, the right to trial by jury, was considered so important that it was required both by the U.S. Constitution, as originally adopted, and repeated in the Bill of Rights. On the other hand, said the Supreme Court, military jurisdiction grew out of the belief that "within the military ranks there is need for a prompt, ready-at-hand means of compelling obedience and order...
There were no umbrellas this time to protect against the elements. The cold could be ignored only momentarily and almost an inch of snow covered the benches at game time, but this did not stop the Crimson cheering section from filling rapidly. Latecomers, most of them Elis, gingerly approached benches covered by another inch of snow...
...immense chore of packing for forty-odd football players. "These two trunks are for the BaBas," he explains, describing the thick fleece-lined jackets worn by players on the bench. "These here," he smiles, opening one of the big trunks, "are partitioned into small boxes, so we can protect the helmets individually." Other trunks display newly-greased shoes, folded underwear, bright jerseys. Before each game, Farrell and his assistants check over every piece of equipment--shoelaces, hip-and-kidney pads, helmet straps--for every member of the team...
Then in the fourth quarter, with the Crimson behind 7 to 6 and in a now-or-never position on its own 5, the line failed not only to open holes but to protect its own punter. Brown Captain Jim McGuinness said after the game that he didn't actually block Jim Joslin's Harris from Haddonfield...