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Word: shield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the child was small, if she stopped in the street to clap her hands, or "if, without reason, she began to dance," passersby did not think it odd. Later, they stared. "The kid is nuts," Pearl Buck once heard a woman say. "From that day I began to shield my child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lift Up Your Head . . . | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...harder to shield herself. "I did my work . . . But none of it meant anything . . . The hours when I really lived were when I was alone with my child . , I could let sorrow have its way . . When she wept," her child would only stare and laugh, and "it was this uncomprehending laughter which always and finally crushed my heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lift Up Your Head . . . | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...pursuer has thrown away his shield for the sake of speed; and his mount, still fresh, bites at the rump of the other. But it is his weapons of offense that the fleeing man has dropped to lighten the load on his horse; the useless shield still hangs by his thigh. And his foundering horse, whose drooped crest, breaking pace and running nostrils show it in extremity, bears out with unmistakable pathos the difference between the fortunes of the riders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: For Whom the Bell Tolls | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...California, television took to the road when the Los Angeles-San Francisco Short Line bus company installed a set in one of its "de luxe" buses. Mounted in the paneling at the front of the bus, the set is screened from the driver's vision by a shield. Reporting that passengers "just love it," Bus President Rex White planned to equip his entire fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Morons & Happy Families | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...ruling against the state of California three years ago. But in Texas, the news struck like a tornado. Texans protested that the state's title to submerged coastal lands dated back more than 100 years to its days as an independent republic. Raged San Antonio Oilman Fred W. Shield: "It is absolutely a steal from the state of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Troubled Waters | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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