Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourment, Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation and Rembrandt's Pallas Athena (for which the artist's adolescent son Titus had posed in a glittering helmet and shield). Gulbenkian had bought all three of them from the famous Hermitage collection of the Russian czars, after persuading the Soviet Union to part with them...
Despite the AMA's resistance, Blue Cross hospitalization insurance took hold, and so did Blue Shield medical insurance, beginning in 1946. Meanwhile, many doctors had become convinced that voluntary plans were not enough; the AMA's resolute opposition to any plans at all left them no choice but to accept the principle of government insurance. At this late date, the lines of battle having moved beyond them, the AMA decided that it was time to back the voluntary plans...
...Protective Shield. "All of this was changed by our Pacific victory. Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean, which has become a vast moat to protect us as long as we hold it. We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands, extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas, held by us and our free allies. From this island chain we can dominate with air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore, and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific...
...That depends on the city: what kind of buildings it has, how thickly it is built up, whether it is built on a plain, in a valley, or on hills (which shield the areas behind them). With this AEC information as a guide, New York State's Civil Defense Commission, headed by General Lucius D. Clay, last week made an estimate for New York City...
...week's end the Reds were still trying. Their estimated casualties in this action alone: 2,400 dead and wounded. Major General Hobart R. Gay, the 1st Cavalry's commander, reported that the Communists were using hordes of civilians, armed only with sharpened sticks, to shield the advance of their regular troops...