Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the diggers found a shallow grave containing the skeleton of a young man close to seven feet tall. His shield, spear and knife identified him as a Saxon of the early fifth century. All his limbs were broken, according to the pagan burial custom (perhaps to cripple the ghost), and the back of his skull had been bashed in. The diggers hoped that one of the Britons of Puddle Hill had liquidated at least one of the monstrous Saxons...
Their dilemma resolves itself in essence into a series of perplexing questions: "Should considerations of personal friendship and the desire to shield friends from public humiliation prevail over the demands of national security?" "Do I as a teacher have greater moral and legal obligations than my fellow citizens?" "Should I accept departures from the historic ideal of due process in apparent questions of national security?" "Have I the right to question the power and motives of a committee which claims to uphold national security...
FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR to be sent abroad by the U.S. will be sold to Switzerland this August. The U.S. will set up a small experimental "swimming pool" reactor, i.e., one immersed in water as both shield and coolant, rated at 10 kw., in Geneva to demonstrate the peacetime uses of atomic energy before a United Nations conference, then let Switzerland have the reactor, plus 55 Ibs. of nuclear material, when the meeting is over...
Rocky Marciano sent courageous Don Cockell home to England on his shield, a blood-spattered technical knockout victim tonight in 54 seconds of the ninth round in the fifth defense of his world heavyweight title...
...Wolfson forces began relentlessly to hammer Avery with questions from the floor. Desperately, the Ward group tried to shield the old man by putting the chair in the hands of Corporation Secretary John Barr. But Wolfson stockholders insisted on answers from Avery himself, and the old man, lost in the clangor of shareholders' cowbells and the booming of loudspeakers, seemed confused, often crying out, "I can't hear...