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Word: shielding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth's veterans said that the barrage reminded them of El Alamein. Under its shield they went forward and uphill, overran a heavy line of Jerry dugouts and trenches, took hundreds of prisoners. Elated Monty sent his men congratulations: "In two days you wrested from the enemy the ridge . . . which was the whole framework of [his] winter line on the Adriatic. . . . A very fine performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: A Ridge and a Pass | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Walter Lippmann wrote The Good Society in 1937. He realized then that a second World War was inevitable. His book was an attempt to state the principles that might guide Americans after that war. It is the domestic counterpart of Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic. The Good Society was stamped with the feeling that national planning of economics and the emergence of total war are linked and inseparable phenomena. Planning needs the integrating stimulus of an outside enemy and, conversely, the presence of the outside enemy demands planning of production for war purposes. To have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Peacemakers | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Thousands of U.S. citizens have been taking their ideas on postwar international organization from Walter Lippmann's best-selling U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (TIME, June 14). Lippmann bases his chief hopes for a protracted period of peace on Anglo-American agreement as the basis of the Atlantic system. But where, in this design for control, does the continent of Europe (pop: 400,000,000) come in? Mr. Lippmann also assumes that Russia and Britain must and will settle the European question. But he never says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Europe | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...food the farmer's busy wife served in his malodorous one-room house (where she also removed the grease from wool with urine) "would cause a riot in any modern penitentiary," and the antique collector's prized four-poster bed originated as a cubicle to shield man & wife from the curiosity of their growing children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Yankees at Work | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

MacCool could also hit. To qualify for the Fianna, a band of soldiers in the service of Cormac Mac Art, Ireland's illustrious Third-Century king, he was buried to the knees as a target for nine warriors. With a shield and hazel stick, Finn knocked their spears aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: MacCool's the Name | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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