Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor, elaborating on his annual message to the State Legislature, said that there "is no room in Massachusetts government or education for the known subversive or for that doubtful character who seeks a shield, either in the Fifth Amendment to the federal Constitution or in provisions of equal effect in our own Constitution...
...Attorney General Herbert Brownell, it seems absurd and dangerous to let spies "go unwhipped of justice" behind that shield. Brownell's campaign for a law that "would allow the Government to use wiretap evidence to prove its espionage cases" has touched off a wiretapping controversy, and one result of it is likely to be the passage of a wiretapping bill at the next session of Congress...
...insane man fired his shotgun through the window. The sheriff fell, blinded. After a while he felt his bloody face and called out: "I can't stay here and bleed to death. Someone lead me away, and I'll walk behind and shield him with my big backside." An insurance man took the chance, and the sheriff tottered off to safety...
Arms Behind the Shield. The old Anglo-American rivalry which eddied about Montgomery during World War II is now all but forgotten. For three years the five-starred field marshal (he is senior officer in the British Army) has served under three U.S. SHAPE commanders-SACEURs, in the alphebetical language of NATO-whom he ranked, or as the British say, pipped. He has done it untiringly, devotedly, brilliantly. He relentlessly travels the circuit of NATO capitals, traveling lightly, laundering his own nylon shorts, inspecting troops, prodding generals, harassing politicians into improving and speeding the training of reserves...
Troops that can be called up in five or six months, he insists, are next to worthless. "If we can't do better than that, well then, we're wasting our money. A small, tough shield in front, big reserves behind, which are organized-properly organized-and the war is won. Mind you, not by the active forces you keep up in peacetime, but by the nation in arms behind the shield. . ." Through caustic, he is also confident. "My view," he says, "is that the danger of premeditated-the word is important-war has been pushed back, largely...