Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Thursday was over-shadowed by the dazzling autumnhued Yard which signalled the commencement of another football season. Harvard was hot: it defeated the West Point Kay-dets and then traveled out to Michigan for the first western invasion since 1920 and returned victorious; later it polished her shield with bulldog fur, squeaking by Yale to a 10 to 6 victory...
Later, at the same Washington meeting, President Eisenhower made the vital point that the U.S. economic system is not enough as a shield-but through liberalized trade and the effective use of a world economic policy, it can be forged into a war-winning offensive weapon...
...withstanding Communism in all-out or limited war. It is therefore in the equal interest of the U.S. and U.S. allies to 1) pool scientific and technical resources and brainpower, 2) tighten allied interdependence in command, 3) keep U.S. forces deployed in NATO's airpower and ground-power shield, 4) provide willing European allies with nuclear weapons and delivery systems-controlled by Europeans-"to give reality to the European sense of participation, which is a basic ingredient of the will to resist." And in the final analysis, whenever the U.S. choice lies between "acquiescence" in Communist aggression and acceptance...
...Shield & Sword. Last spring, in the wake of Britain's decision to cut its armed forces in half by 1962, the Atlantic Council gave Norstad a formidable task: to prepare an estimate of NATO's force requirements for the next five years, taking into account economic and political pressures for demobilization and the changing relationship between conventional and nuclear strength. It is a measure of Norstad's capacity as a planner that although his report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises...
...complete with electrical and differential systems, operating pistons and fan belt-130 parts in all for a parent to help assemble. For the medieval set, there is a pair of remote-control jousting knights ($15.00) that charge each other with lances, light the winner's plume when a shield...