Word: shielding
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...years of intense shoe dependency and I found only two withered stubs masquerading as pinky toes. They looked less like natural appendages and more like unwanted souvenirs from a childhood spent living far too close to a radioactive dump. As we crossed Harvard Yard, I made great pains to shield the two little black sheep of my family of toes from the sight of tourists, so as not to disabuse them of whatever idealized tales they may have heard about the worthiness of Harvard feet...
...room, white file boxes are piled up to the ceiling, with a life-size cardboard Veritas shield and a Chinese fan floating amid the files...
...also worked over the summer with its optional insurance group, Blue Cross Blue Shield, to increase coverage of mental health and chiropractic services...
...have the Israelis been in disrupting the terror network of Hamas, the militant group responsible for most of the bomb attacks in Israel this year? Quite effective, it appears. Israeli intelligence officials tell TIME that since the start last spring of the West Bank offensive known as Operation Defensive Shield, 98% of the members of Hamas' military wing who are known to them in the area have been killed or arrested--a total of 70 men. With the Israeli army still in or around every West Bank town, it's no longer possible for cells to organize across different areas...
...decade-long case pitting veterans against Dow Chemical, Monsanto and the U.S. government over the use of a toxic defoliant in Vietnam--in six weeks. Soon other judges and lawyers were asking him to step between warring parties, and in cases ranging from the faulty birth-control device Dalkon Shield to asbestos exposure, Feinberg got the job done, more or less inventing the field of mass tort mediation as he went along. "The secret to Ken's success," says a judge who has worked with Feinberg on a number of occasions, "is that he knows when to listen and when...