Word: safeguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When James Byrnes was U.S. Secretary of State (1945-47), one of the big international issues was the U.S. demand for a secret ballot in Eastern European countries occupied by the Red army. Byrnes had to carry the ball for a democratic safeguard against voter coercion which his own state had not adopted...
...keelboat Mandan are a brawling Creole crew captained by roly-poly Frenchie (Steven Geray); a couple of Kentucky mountain men, high-spirited Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) and hot-tempered Boone Caudill (Dewey Martin); and a hostage Blackfoot princess named Teal Eye (Elizabeth Threatt), who has been taken along to safeguard the expedition against Indian attacks...
...gibing phrase of isolationist Republicans, although the governor feels that weak U.S. Asiatic policy encouraged the Communist attack. By grasshopper plane, he hopped across the ridge-backed front, talking with U.S. officers and men. He is "deeply convinced" of the Tightness of the Korean war: it is the safeguard of all free Asia...
...English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping coal in short supply. "They don't want coal," said a bitter Italian. "For them, la mancanza fa la forza-power through shortage...
...Foreign Ministers, flanked by the U.S.'s Dean Acheson and Britain's Anthony Eden, made their way through a battery of klieg lights to an E-shaped conference table. France's Robert Schuman tapped for silence. "Our aim," he said, "is common security and the safeguard of peace." Quai d'Orsay functionaries, inscrutable as croupiers, pushed stacks of documents like so many chips across the green baize tables. Diplomats went for their pens...