Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strong Shield...
...fortunate in having an economy so richly productive as to sustain a most powerful defense without impairment of human values. Without this military strength our efforts to provide a shield for freedom and to preserve and strengthen peace would be futile. We are determined that in quality and power this force shall forever be kept adequate for our security needs until the conference table can replace the battlefield as the arbiter of world affairs...
...another form of negation, a man may lose confidence that his fellows possess the strength and wisdom to put their ideals into practice. Especially among students, negation may shield the "nascent frailty" of spiritual apprehensions that are not "sufficiently matured for either private acknowledgement or public exposure...
Once a year an atmosphere of crisis builds up around the West's North Atlantic Treaty alliance as the time approaches for the December annual review meeting in Paris. The warnings serve as a useful reminder that NATO's sword and shield, serviceable as it has proved to be in helping to keep the peace for the past ten years, remains an uncertain defense against the 50 divisions that the Soviets can hurl against Europe on short notice. No matter how low NATO planners set the sights, each year member countries manage to evade filling the targets. Only...
India has for long remained a convenient "friend" for China to enact her episodes upon; and still, ironically enough, it is India's tragic pair, Nehru and Menon, who would readily shield China's attitude that yellow imperialism must replace white imperialism in Asia...