Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles as well...
...prejudiced." A City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer, a New York policeman for more than 20 years, writes in his book, Behind the Shield: "The hostility and fear that almost palpably press against a policeman in lower-class areas aggravate his impulse to 'get tough...
...scientists and scholars from six different countries, contends that man may soon be able to hurl nature itself at his foes. He could flood coastal cities with tidal waves and unleash uncontrollable hurricanes and earthquakes. A well-aimed, chemical-tipped rocket could puncture the atmosphere's ozone shield, loosing a flood of ultraviolet rays that would eventually kill all exposed life below...
Czechoslovakia runs like a dagger from Europe into the Soviet Union and sits next door to East Germany, the shield of the Soviet bloc's de fense system. In a sense, Dubcek's growing unruliness-and the invasion of his country to bring it back in line-was a near-domestic issue for Moscow, not an international one. This was all the truer because, inside Russia, the youth and intellectuals-among others-seemed electrified by the spectacle of Czechoslovak reform...
...limited to see beyond the immediate mechanics of juggling wife, mistress, and friend. There is a glorious scene when, after the announcement of the second killing, Chris goes to Paul's house to tell Paul they must "stick together, that's the main thing," that Chris will shield Paul who he assumes has committed the crime. The door is locked and Chris must deliver the speech from outside; he is suspended in geographic limbo outside both houses. He walks nervously about Paul's house half-looking for an entrance, then turns to look at his own house with its connotations...