Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this month. Exactly what needs to be done-and what will be done-is not clear, however. Even the nature of the challenge from the Soviet Union is in dispute. Every day, behind the doors of congressional committee rooms, experts argue about how much the U.S. must spend to protect itself and how these vast sums (more than $115 billion in the current budget) can be best used...
...come to visit those plants, and they ask, ' Jeez, don't you have terrible trouble with people breaking your windows and smearing your walls?' The answer is no- because if somebody gets a notion to do that, they had better watch out. People in the neighborhood protect the plant. It's a source of pride as well as jobs. They feel it is theirs...
Opposing them, in a classic confrontation that marked his first major domestic crisis, stood President Jimmy Carter and the forces of authority at his command. "My responsibility," Carter declared on national television as he invoked the Taft-Hartley Act, "is to protect the health and safety of the American public ... The law will be enforced...
...work, but if pickets are there, I'll go home," said Claude Profitt, 47. Said Ken Hager: "I drive a long ways every day before daylight. How is the National Guard gonna protect a miner on these West Virginia roads...
...battling Ethiopians, and recently Cubans and Russians, in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia in support of ethnic Somalis living there. By playing the peacemaker and withdrawing his invasion forces from territory to which he had no claim anyway, Barre satisfied a Washington condition for receiving defensive weapons to protect himself against the troops now sweeping toward his borders...