Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said no single word in Tiso's behalf...
Nevertheless, as a safeguard, the Government intended to continue rationing of meat, butter, sugar and preserves for many months. The last wartime restriction to go would almost surely be rent control. As far as any one could see end of that was still several years away...
...means been laid on the shelf. It will be studied despite the failure of the convention to recommend that it be studied. It will be laid alongside the [Lambeth] Quadrilateral* with a challenge to its opponents to point out wherein it diverges from or fails to safeguard the essentials which that instrument sets forth...
...tune of 40 million francs [$3,335]." But the Government (which had dealt with the Passy case secretly at Cabinet level) was prepared to be lenient. "You don't do counter-espionage with choir boys," said Teitgen. There would be no public trial: "It is necessary ... to safeguard certain secrets...
...task, therefore, resolved itself into the purely constructive one of taking over from each body those elements of procedure and structure which would a) provide a sufficient sense of familiarity in the procedures of the united church to enable both groups to feel at home, and b) safeguard both the episcopacy and the presbytery, together with the administration of the sacraments, against any radical departure from the procedure now substantially identical in both communions...