Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor Wallace.' " To keep the Kid from being tagged as an informer, he was (by his own planning) captured, arrested on a charge of cattle-stealing, imprisoned comfortably in the Patron Store. He testified, then grew doubtful of Wallace's promise to safeguard him, and escaped before his own trial...
Coops & Coups. At 30 Donaldson passed rigorous tests to join the select ranks of postal inspectors-the trusted men who safeguard the mails, protect the public from thefts and frauds, keep the service 99.9% honest. Postal inspection is the oldest and least publicized investigative and crime detection agency of the Government. Thoroughness and cold efficiency are its tenets. Donaldson served as an inspector in Kansas City for 17 years, sometimes as "the guy in the coop." (In large postoffices there are concealed, peep-holed galleries from 'which inspectors watch clerks and sorters suspected of mail thefts...
...more than possible, the wealthy owners of Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes riding on a successful partition of Palestine demand a safeguard beyond the efforts of a weak state militia. As the originator of the plan, the United Nations can do the Jewish people a great service and fulfill its purpose in the eyes of the world...
...hotel official emphasized that immediate reservations were the only safeguard against sleeping on Cambridge Common...
...legal for a minor to drink in capital bars so long as he does not order the drink, pay for it, or have it set in front of him by a tavern owner or waiter. He added: "For a child to drink with his parents is the greatest safeguard against drunkenness that I know...