Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matched sets of Spaulding golf clubs. But the average industrial wages are low in Japan ($42 a month), and workers have almost no savings at all. The Korean war boom is spent, though prices are up 59% since 1950. For many urban families, the next paycheck is the only shield against disaster...
...abuse came from the parents of a master mason's daughter named Jean Armour, with whom Burns "had got deeply in love ... of which proofs were every day arising more & more to view. I would gladly have covered my Inamorata from the darts of Calumny with the conjugal Shield...
...doctrine of "peace through mutual terror." Instead of assuring peace, said Lapp, possession of retaliatory atomic-thermonuclear weapons by both sides will create an "utterly unstable" situation in which one side or the other might attempt to strike a devastating first blow. Therefore, the nation needs both "sword and shield." An effective defense system against atomic-thermonuclear attack is possible, Lapp insisted, "if we really give our scientists their heads." But would the U.S. public be willing to pay for the costly defense measures the scientists might devise? Yes. said Lapp, if the Administration would tell the people the hair...
...celebration in 1836, undergraduates for the first time raised a banner with the new scal, and seven years later, the Corporation officially recognized it as the first and authentic shield of the College...
...Edward Everott administered with on chief assumption: everything his predecessor had down was wrong. Everett favored the religious tone of Christo et Ecclesiae, a tone which veritas has not retained. He requested the aid of Samuel Adams Eliot, then treasurer of the Corporation, in restoring the "Spiritual and Godly Shield." Eliot, he soon found, was not the man to enlist in this cause. Unknown to the President, Eliot had been instrumental in getting Veritas recognized a few years before. The letters exchanged between the two men were lengthy, heated, but always, of course, scrupulously polite. Each held to his position...