Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base on which to build its forces, or in the long run it is not an effective partner . . . Now, while we are disappointed to see in this coming year 13,500 [British] men taken out of Europe, still it does not, in our opinion, obviate the necessity for a shield ... in Western Europe. And certainly," said Ike, taking oblique note of German talk of cutting NATO commitments (see FOREIGN NEWS), "the compromise plan that was adopted and the phasing out of these people was in order to give the Germans an opportunity to fill that...
...invoke the Fifth Amendment does not warrant an automatic presumption of law violation. But the purpose of the amendment is to save a man's neck, not his reputation. Mr. Beck's action could not save him from the disgrace of running to cover behind a personal shield when the management of his union is under grave attack. The truth is that Mr. Beck is in a predicament in which silence may be even more damaging than candor would have been...
...telephone optimistic reports from Canberra. White House Physician Howard Snyder found the President coughing only occasionally. His head cold was easing, his inflamed left ear cleared. So much better was Ike feeling that he stripped off his jacket, lazily drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead in tropic water. He ducked into bed at 9 o'clock, stayed abed nearly twelve hours, rose for a late breakfast (prunes, oatmeal, toast and jelly, Sanka) and a look at Washington...
...another sense, the U.S. had only just begun its quest for Middle Eastern stability, and the Eisenhower Doctrine was primarily the shield. "I was definitely pleased," the President said, hailing the passage of the doctrine. Then he added: "I merely would point this out: that from the beginning, the Secretary of State and I have insisted that the mere solution of one or two preliminary phases of the problems did not solve the underlying causes...
...Medical and hospital insurance, optional for the individual, will be handled through the Blue Cross-Blue Shield organization, which now has a unit at Harvard...