Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary backed up this postulate by stating that General Sandino's men have recently sought to maintain themselves by foraging upon the. property of U. S. citizens and others in Nicaragua. Thus they would fall directly within the scope of U. S. marines sent by President Coolidge "to protect the lives and property of U. S. citizens...
...stevedore, now an affluent Negro bank depositor. The horizontal departure of Mr. Wills's shadow was effected by a grotesque human with thicket eyebrows, a blasted mouth and arms and legs like bent ingots-Paolino Uzcudun, woodchopper from the Basque country (southwest France). M. Uzcudun, not bothering to protect his already hopeless face from Mr. Wills's outlashing fists, waited until the fourth round to bash Mr. Wills over backwards against the ropes, down on the floor, down on the floor again. Then M. Uzcudun lay on the floor himself, flipped himself erect with a comic leer...
...General, ruthless, instantly suppressed the news organ Lupta, which had commented despairingly: "In the face of the country's unanimous expectation that it would receive a Government which it had indicated unquestionably was its choice, it is answered again with a Government by the Bratiano family. May God protect Rumania from . . . this [the King's] deed...
...someone besides ourselves were responsible for trade barriers, but frankly, must we not admit that we manufacturers and producers of goods sold in all countries, we and the men and women of our employ, are the real force behind the trade barriers? We producers have labored to protect ourselves, our products and our wage standards, and trade barriers are the methods we chose. Alas for the futility of human hopes and even interests as we suppose them te be! . . . As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized. We all know...
...host of permanent residents to Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, has cost millions of dollars. There the "objects of art" in paint, marble, bronze, tapestry, are mostly by world-famed masters. Their owners go off summering comforted by thought of the heavy insurance policies, faithful watchmen, alert elevator attendants provided to protect the expensive stay-behinds...