Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television men urged Ike to talk from a dry room under the stands, but when he heard that half of his audience had stuck through the rain, he turned on his heel and splashed through the thick, black mud to the outdoor platform. A solicitous aide tried to shield him with a big umbrella, but Ike brushed it aside. Then he tossed away his broad-brimmed hat, and, with rain splattering on his bald head, began his maiden political speech...
...five hose companies from nearby towns and lots laid blankets of water over the area, managed to shield nearby film vaults and buildings. The firemen had plenty of help. Actors Burt Lancaster, Ray Bolger, Steve Cochran, Gordon Mac-Rae, and studio Vice President Jack Warner dashed about like real-life heroes, saving whatever they could from the burning shed. In three hours it was all over. The fire (cause undetermined) had destroyed $1,500,000 in buildings and equipment over an area of eight acres. It was the biggest studio blaze in Hollywood's history...
Ringleaders Earl Ward and "Crazy" Jack Hyatt. In 1950 Hyatt, with two other prisoners, had seized Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams during an inspection tour at Marquette Prison, knifed a state trooper bodyguard, and attempted to escape, using the governor as a shield. Ward, once an inmate of a mental institution, has a record for kidnaping, robbery, narcotics and armed assault. Said Fox: "Earl Ward is a natural leader. He and the other boys are to be congratulated on the good faith with which they have bargained...
...jailbirds of a more flamboyant feather. Among their activities, which have been broadly colored up for movie purposes: smuggling the wife of a fellow convict into prison in a crate marked "Highly Inflammable"; saving Psychologist Wilson (John Beal) from being used by a psychopathic killer as a jailbreak shield. To these extravagant exploits the picture adds others even more farfetched: the convicts operating a bookie joint called the Psychosomatic Bookkeeping Co. in the psychologist's office; Wilson quelling a near prison riot singlehanded...
...Supreme Commander described the military array beyond the Iron Curtain, "deployed and poised as for war." Against the Soviet divisions stood the meager forces of free Europe. To build an adequate defensive shield, two big problems had to be solved: "How to persuade the nations of the free West to allocate afresh their resources in production and manpower," and how to organize strategically...