Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper of mine which appeared in the November, 1962, Kansas Law Review, and which was also published separately by the Roger Baldwin Foundation. As I said, both in the Kansas article and in the letter to the CRIMSON from Mr. Sutherland and myself, there is no legal privilege to shield one's friends by silence. One who is asked to testify to matters which actually tend to show this guilt does not lose the immunity he would have available, by reason of the fact that his claim of the privilege would not only protect him, but would incidentally protect...
Another, and the least known, terror of space is cosmic rays. These mysterious particles, voyaging across the universe at nearly the speed of light, are normally gentled by the atmosphere before they reach the earth's surface. Men in space would feel their full fury. No shield is effective against them, and certain types leave streaks of dead cells when they pass through living tissue...
...first rumblings from home that Slansky had the knife out. On U.S. soil, Clementis felt safe. But President Gottwald sent Clementis' wife to New York to reassure him that he could safely come home. Clementis returned to Prague, and then found that Gottwald could not or would not shield...
...tribesmen. The police had broken up an illegal Negro prayer meeting; the result was a race riot which blazed for seven hours. Unafraid, Sister Aidan (real name: Dr. Elsie Quinlan) drove through the police lines and greeted her Negro friends. Some of them tried to shield her, but a howling mob, chanting "Africa!" dragged her, unresisting, from her car, cut her throat, and burned her mutilated corpse...
...story barely hinted at the effect of this result. But doubling the size of the known universe the expansion is doubled. Now by computing backwards, the age of the universe becomes about six billion year, somewhat more in line with geological results from radioactivity of rocks in the Laurentian Shield...