Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preserve and Protect, Drury (8) 10. The Vines of Yarrabee, Eden...
...time since pre-Pearl Harbor days has the vast organism created to protect the nation against foreign enemies been under such furious homefront attack. No segment is immune: the uniformed professionals, their civilian colleagues and superiors at the Pentagon, their supporters in Congress, their suppliers among big business and big labor?all feel the criticism and distrust from several directions at once. Students, intellectuals, pacifists and the New Left have long been opponents. Now they are being joined by more influential voices from the center and even the right. Congress, until recently amenable to almost any proposal from the military...
...required not to render the military powerless or to deny its courage and dedication or to thrust it beyond the pale. Such alertness is necessary, rather, to ensure that the military does not, by design or accident, irreparably impair the health of the society it is pledged to protect...
...area adjacent to University Hall be cordoned off to protect the spectators...
...such self-confidence that he could let subordinates win glory and medals, taking to himself the satisfaction of achievement. "Your job," Eisenhower told S.L.A. Marshall, the European theater's chief historian in 1945, "is to determine the truth, and I will settle for that. You are not here to protect my reputation." Well aware of his worth, he was not falsely humble, but the bravura of a MacArthur, a Patton or a Montgomery distressed his sense of proportion. He did not need to shout, and as General of the Army or President he betrayed not the slightest trace of pretension...