Word: shield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strategic importance. The combative efficiency of the soldier is at least doubled when he can recuperate in comfort." Ergo, nearly every pillbox is equipped with electric lights, electric stove, a well, beds, running water and glistening latrines. On his visit to the forts last August Premier Daladier cried: "The shield is in place! It is of good metal!" Impressed by the amazing camouflage of many of the forts Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour shook his tousled white head, questioned ecstatically, "The art of War, now more than ever is it not to remain invisible...
...aboard the S. S. Westernland en route to the U. S., he felt unwell, was obliged to keep to his cabin one evening. When he reappeared next morning, visitors approached to ask questions. Dr. Einstein explored an egg, said nothing. Thereafter Frau Einstein had all she could do to shield him from strangers...
...Bamberger, retired vice president of the famed Newark department store. With them they had a customs inspector, to get the Einsteins quietly off the ship. They had forgotten to bring an immigration officer. While they waited, news cameramen managed to snap the Einsteins-the Herr Doktor, bewildered, trying to shield himself by waving his violin case, his wife resolutely crying: "No! No! No! No interviews!" At length the Einsteins climbed into the tug, chuffed off to the Battery where an automobile waited to take them to Princeton. Meanwhile, on the Westernland's pier, orchid-raising Lawyer Samuel Untermyer stood...
...years ago. On his own invitation he appeared before the American Bar Association, informed its members that if the Government's war against crime was to be successful, constitutional guarantees should be suspended, local police should be Federalized, all legal technicalities which shield criminals should be swept away (TIME, Sept. 11). The A. B. A. lawyers were thrown into a professional panic until Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings arrived, disavowed his subordinate's speech, promised to deal with crime in a sound constitutional manner...
...shield is in place. It is of good metal. The country has reason to be calm and resolute. . . . We have the right to make sure of our own liberty which is all the more respected, when it is known that we are capable of guaranteeing...