Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, Silver Shield System, Inc. opened its doors in New York 20 months ago, was soon handling $7,000,000 annually, had plans for expanding nationwide. Fortnight ago New York State Attorney General Jacob Javits capped a year of investigation by charging that Silver Shield had engaged in "false and misleading advertising," and "commingled" clients' money with its own. Far from balancing anyone else's budget, it could not even balance its own; it had a deficit of $100,000. As Javits moved for an injunction against the company for fraudulent practices, Silver Shield, a Delaware corporation, announced...
...government moved gingerly to tackle Pardoe's problem. It published its "Restrictive Trade Practices Bill," which in theory strikes down the intricate system of price fixing, market sharing and clubby restraints ("I won't produce more if you won't") that has been built up to shield British producers and sellers from the uncertainties of competition. The new bill was only a feeble imitation of U.S. antitrust legislation. And it had one gaping loophole-any "restraint" could continue if it was found "reasonably necessary" for such reasons as "maintenance of employment" or "the protection of the public...
...Manhattan, tweedy Poet W. H. Auden, 48, rose to thank the nation's publishers and bookdealers for bestowing a National Book Award on his sacred and profane volume, The Shield of Achilles. Said he: "What, in the name of profit, dear foolish publishers, kind unworldly booksellers, am I doing here? . . . You will never make enough [out of me] to pay the wages of one incompetent typist . . . For your award . . . my thanks; for the dollars I shall never bring you, my apologies...
...assure that Soviet efforts to inflame old antagonisms will not succeed in breaking the peace . . . Meanwhile, the society of free nations must retain the power needed to deter aggression. We recognize that such power should never serve as a means of national aggrandizement but only as an essential shield . . . We shall help ourselves and others to peace, freedom and social progress, maintaining human rights where they are already secure, defending them when they are in peril, and peacefully restoring them where they have temporarily been lost...
NATO's other justification for being, and by no means a secondary one, is as a peacetime weapon of the cold war. It reduces fear and restores hope to Europe, by providing a shield-a shield that is visible, and, by virtue of five U.S. divisions in Germany, visibly American. In doing so, NATO, in its seven short years, has served well. It has created a community powerful enough to deter its enemy, healthy enough to survive family squabbles so far, binding enough so that no member has wished to withdraw. And for NATO's present solidity...