Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaf from McCarthy, George sent 100 polite, properly accoutered students into Massachusetts to help win the 61,238 signatures he needs to get on the ballot. "If we make it in Massachusetts, we'll make it in all the states," he said from behind the heart-high, bulletproof shield that protects him during speeches. Howling protesters tried their best. Once shouts of "Sieg Heil!" drove him off the platform...
...Ultra Brite girl who brands strangers with long-distance kisses. There is also an element of "I can do anything you can do" worse. Thus when Aerowax ricochets machine-gun bullets off its "jet-age plastic," another brand looses a stampede of elephants to trample over its "protective shield." The surrealistic approach often has a certain childish charm at first, but with repetition it quickly palls...
...missiles, although Peking has fallen a year behind schedule and is not expected to pose any threat until the mid-1970s . Against the real and present peril of 780 land-based Soviet missiles already pointed at U.S. targets, however, Sentinel will afford virtually no protection. Even a "thick" ABM shield, costing $40 billion instead of the projected $5.5 billion for the thin screen, would be hopelessly porous. Missile experts are quicker to devise new offensive weapons, such as multiple warhead rockets, than the means to shoot them down...
...Under British tax laws, an unincorporated writer can keep only about $20,000 out of $70,000 in income. Even if they incorporate themselves, as Miss Christie did in 1955, the gam is only another $20,000, and earnings must be distributed and taxed. Under Booker's corporate shield, tax savings are higher and earnings can accumulate as capital. Booker, which pays its stable fixed salaries, also negotiates film rights and merchandise tie-ins, thereby leaves them free to write-and make more money for everyone involved...
Nymphs & Satyrs. Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death. Adultery, says Updike, has become a kind of "imaginative quest" for a successful hedonism that would enable man to enjoy an otherwise meaningless life. But to seek pleasure is not necessarily to find...