Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their search for a new telescope site, researchers crisscrossed the East examining and rejecting 29 different locations. They were looking for a valley surrounded by mountains which would serve as a shield against local radio noise. They also wanted a location far enough south so that the telescope's unsheltered antenna would not be exposed to wind, snow and ice. Green Bank filled the bill admirably. Radio noise in the valley was only a thousandth of the noise at the Naval Research Laboratory radio telescope in Washington. Moreover, Green Bank was distinguished by the fact that no commercial aircraft...
...reservation land. Other tribes, such as Montana's Crow and Blackfeet, Colorado's Utes and Utah's Uintah-Ourays, turn all funds over to tribal councils for community projects. Last year Colorado's Southern Ute tribe signed a contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield for group medical insurance, while New Mexico's Jicarilla Apaches have been able to set up a $1,000,000 scholarship fund to give their youngsters a college education...
...beginning of the second half, Harvard kicked off to Carlisle. The ball was caught on the Indians' seven yard line by Johnson, their quarterback, but instead of making interference, the Indians grouped around Johnson as if to make a "flying wedge" formation. With this huddle of bodies as a shield, the ball was shoved inside halfback Dillon's jersey...
...expected to convey the rushing theater, the rising drama of the first three acts and the intense poetry of almost all the play. The Old Vic did both things and something more. It communicated what is so ominous, so Oedipus-like, in the prophecies that by seeming to shield Macbeth from Nemesis only speed him toward it. And it caught the play's feudal, barbaric, night-lighted atmosphere, the sense of a haunted world no less than a haunted...
Whatever one thinks of Vellucci's proposals, the Councillor has definitely become a force to reckon with in the Cambridge community. Whenever Harvard or M.I.T. plans a project which requires any sort of delicate negotiating, the utmost care is taken to shield proceedings from the eye of the Councillor. As one M.I.T. spokesman said recently, "You just can't imagine what a cramp he can put in things when he starts poking around...