Word: protected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoover has absolutely no basis for attacking the second statement. The names of the frightened and suspicious young men were omitted to protect them. Since Mr. Hoover does not know who they are, how can he claim to know their suspicions...
...protect the identity of tipsters, the Sun-Times told them to "sign" their letters with six-digit numbers and tear off a jagged corner of the page; when a murderer is convicted, the newspaper will print the "winning" number and the tipster can present the missing piece of paper and claim his $5,000 reward. The Los Angeles Mirror (TIME, June 13) has copied the Sun-Times scheme...
...turn out to be more important than anything on which the Big Four Foreign Ministers might agree. Europe's political future and its military defense were closely tied up with its economic prospects. Would Europe develop toward a great unified area of free trade? Or would each nation protect itself with barriers which would strengthen the parts but weaken the whole...
Rifles & Dynamite. As she was talking, a miner aimed a gun at her from a window outside. Her husband rushed to protect her; a bullet stopped him. Other miners fired; Tom O'Connor got 42 bullets in his body, was battered to a pulp with iron bars. U.S. Engineer Albert Krefting was also killed; Mrs. O'Connor was badly mauled before she escaped...
...widespread and vicious attacks. His enemies were many: disgruntled officers, liberals, professional politicians (who resented his refusal to take part in the Truman campaign), the Communists, gossip columnists. Both Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell (who raged during the Palestine dispute because Forrestal advocated friendship with the Arabs to protect U.S. Middle East oil supplies) sniped at him mercilessly...