Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intensify the day raids with more and bigger bombers. The crews are brushing up on flying in the dark so that they can approach their targets in early dawn or leave them just at dusk. American crews thus can keep the advantages of bombing in daylight, have darkness to shield them from enemy fighters during half the round trip...
...further pointed up this week by a Navy announcement that U.S. naval vessels had intercepted two escorted cargo ships headed for the Aleutians. The two merchantmen were not particularly significant. Their escort was. It consisted of no less than four cruisers and four destroyers. Such an inordinately heavy shield suggested that the Japs wanted to be sure those ships got through...
...What religion could man worship to fill the aching heart that all the glory of the good material things of life had left empty? "There is no sure shield against the tyranny of this ruinous passion for possession," said Britain's gentle, eloquent, 77-year-old teacher W. Macniele Dixon, "save a transference of our affections from possession to admiration, from immoderate craving for wealth and power to an intense longing for beauty and excellence...
...some awful let-downs." > A high-ranking officer recently returned from overseas: "Any attempt we made to get the blunt truth into our communiqués was blocked. Most of us believed the American people could take it, but the tendency in higher quarters was to shield the people from the hard, cruel facts. . . . Whether this was deliberate shielding of the people, or an attempt by the area command to look good to the folks back home I do not know...
...Shield was the high scorer for the Jayvees, tallying 17 points, while Mike De Leo played a flue game on the defense. Daly dropped 14 markers through the hoop for the visitors...