Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personally ambitious officer could easily result in the practical exclusion of free thought in government circles. A program advocating the investigation of every employee's soul as well as his affiliations transcends the obvious limits of national security by its susceptibility to vicious abuse and weakens an important safeguard to democratic rights...
...toward winning World War II. This is an investment in world freedom and world peace. The assistance that I am recommending for Greece and Turkey amounts to little more than one tenth of 1% of this investment. It is only common sense that we should safeguard this investment. . . . If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world-and we shall surely endanger the welfare of this nation...
...Safeguard. In Detroit, Corporal Fred Martin faced the fact that there are "too many good-looking women" around for him to resist, asked for and got, as a rider to his divorce decree, a court order restraining him from marriage for two years...
...dollars. He scolded: "The Foreign Office must learn that we have become a poor nation and must cut our foreign policy accordingly. It is useless to have grandiose ideas that we cannot afford to put into operation . . . and our first duty to ourselves and to the world is to safeguard our solvency." They were his last words of advice; he died soon after...
...referring to the invulnerability of the College's security system maintained to safeguard examinations and testing material from malicious students. "I've been here many years and not only has there been no trouble in my tenure, but I've never even heard of any before I got here," he mused complacently...