Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife, Eleanor Holm, onetime Olympic swimmer and Aquacade beauty. "Now is the time to have a wife," he muttered, and got on the telephone. Eleanor, a wife in need, arrived soon after Joyce had been taken away in an ambulance; she pitched in, and did her best to help shield Rose from reporters and photographers. In the hospital, in no danger, Joyce was questioned by police. Why had she done it? Between puffs on a cigarette, she explained: "I just love; razor blades...
...government did not have the money to pay for it and the U.S. State Department did nothing to help the Iranians get it. The first ray of hope: last week President Truman asked Congress to appropriate $8.5 billion for foreign military and economic aid to help build "a defensive shield against aggression." Of this sum, $415 million would be set aside for Greece, Turkey and Iran...
With Soap & Water. With a portable Alpha counter the technicians began retracing the patrolman's path from the plant all the way to Richland. The path was none too well marked. He had slipped the hot wrench into his metal lunchbox, and the box had acted as a shield-which frustrated the counter and had protected the patrolman's fellow passengers on the long bus ride home. But the patrolman, his home, his car, and a few areas around the plant (where he had carried the wrench in his hand) were hot enough to make the detectors sound...
...National Liberation. One of his most famous adventures was in 1934 in Marseille, when a Croat assassin attacked the car in which he was riding with Yugoslavia's King Alexander, killed the King (and France's Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou), wounded Georges while he tried to shield the King...
Like Communists everywhere, Red China's rulers try to shield themselves from the view of the non-Communist world. Yet week by week; news flows out of Red China-from the 1,500 Chinese who arrive every day in Hong Kong, from foreigners leaving the country, from letters, from Communist newspapers and radio. To sift, compare, and report this news, TIME placed Correspondent Robert Neville in Hong Kong. On this page is a week's grist from the Hong Kong bureau's mill...