Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom union with God is the only aim. "If you desire to have this aim concentrated and expressed in one word," said the author of The Cloud, "take but one short word of a single syllable . . . The word GOD or the word LOVE . . . This word shall be your shield and your spear, whether you ride in peace or in war. With this word you shall beat uponthe cloud and the darkness, which are above...
...uneasy autumn of 1957, the U.S. is reluctantly grasping the full, unwelcome meaning of Russian-made metal objects orbiting around the earth. Sputnik I and Sputnik II have painfully fractured the U.S.'s contented expectation that, behind an impenetrable shield of technological superiority, the nation could go on with the pursuit of happiness and business as usual this year and the next and the next. Now the U.S. has to live with the uncomfortable realization that Russia is racing with clenched-teeth determination to surpass the West in science-and is rapidly narrowing the West's shielding lead...
...Radcliffe Shield Society, a group similar to the Crimson Key, came into being this week when the Annex Student Council established a visitor's organization...
...Council will select the Shield chairman, and the Annex Administration will pick approximately 15 other members from applicants for the job. The guides will wear emblems bearing the official Radcliffe shield, the Council decided...
...Force General Lauris Norstad. Last week, giving the top military brass of the 15 NATO nations a secret preview of the formal five-year plan that he will submit to NATO's permanent Council next month, Norstad stubbornly reiterated that if it is to be an effective shield against Soviet aggression in Europe NATO must have "about 30 divisions" in the line that runs from the Baltic to the Alps. A vast comedown from the 1952 vision of 97 divisions, Norstad's minimum goal is, even so, out of reach, and threatens to become more...