Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the British cuts, Norstad will have fewer than 15 divisions in his command-though the French have promised to restore to the NATO shield "as soon as possible" two divisions withdrawn last year for service in North Africa...
...reactor is housed in a dome-roofed steel building whose purpose is to keep radioactive matter from escaping into the air in the unlikely event of an explosion. Its nuclear core, enclosed in a thick lead and concrete shield, contains fuel elements whose active material is natural uranium and uranium slightly enriched with fissionable U-235. Among the fuel elements circulates ordinary water, which acts both as moderator (to slow neutrons down) and as a heat-absorbing agent...
...than enough to run an electronic watch that Elgin is working on. It will also operate small transistor radios, and Elgin researchers believe that it will eventually be used in hearing aids. When worn in close contact with the human body, the battery must be enclosed in a metal shield that makes it as big as a cough drop (0.2 in. thick, 0.6 in. in diameter). For use in military guided missiles, the atomic battery has the important advantage of not being affected much by temperature changes. At -200° F., it yields more current than at room temperature...
...soldier's courage has become a stranger and subtler virtue since the days when Spartan mothers clapped their sons off to the wars with the stark injunction: "Return with your shield or on it." In the jungle retreat of Bataan, it became necessary to resist in a seemingly lost cause. On the frostbitten ridges of Korea, it became necessary to carry a stalemate to its logical inconclusion. In these tragic endurance contests, new kinds of American courage were bred, and that courage is celebrated in these two remarkable, non-fiction accounts by first-time authors. Give Us This...
...they often make up in wit. To the surprise of Manhattan critics, they also follow the rules of good sculpture. A case in point is Stankiewicz's The Warrior, which is armored with a hatmaker's discarded boiler, has a butane-bottle head and a boiler-plate shield. The Warrior's spindly steel rod legs, girded with buggy wheels, and its limp crest of dangling BX cable give it'away. Says Stankiewicz: "It's most menacing from the front, but it's futile in spite of its posture...