Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surgeon Scales suggests that air-cushion levitation may be helpful in human patients by 1) reducing shock, 2) preventing loss of fluids by oozing from wound or burn areas, 3) quickly creating a dry, germproof "shield" over the wound, and 4) avoiding bedsores. How well a human patient would take to living on an upended wind tunnel, he does not yet know...
...weeks have still not arrived. In addition, rings arriving scratched had to be accepted, according to Balley, "because the buyer's initials were already on them." The Committee also accused the ring representatives of false advertising for telling students H.S.A. rings were the only ones available with the Harvard shield...
Armed with an "intermediate shield," before long they find themselves able to speak extemporaneously to a given point...
...must develop anti-missile defenses. We must face the fact that if the Soviets achieve a reliable anti-missile defense before we do, our retaliatory power could cease to be the shield for freedom...
...obvious difference between Sky Shield II and the real thing was that no bombs exploded, no antiaircraft missiles were launched, no guns were fired. But there was another difference; it would take days and weeks of study to assess the effectiveness of NORAD's response to the make-believe attack. If that attack had been by someone else and in earnest, the results would be all too apparent all too soon...