Word: shields
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About six months ago, Mayor of Cambridge Sheila Doyle Russell and members of the Cambridge School Committee met with Rudenstine in the posh Faculty Club. They left with a baseball cap especially designed for the meeting: It had a veritas shield right above the word "Cambridge," symbolizing the teamwork between the city and the University...
That's the political rationale, but whether expansion is really a good idea is more complicated. For example, will extending the West's nuclear shield eastward mean more stability in Europe, where war this century has cost 50 million lives, including those of 500,000 Americans? Or will expansion just redivide Europe along a more eastward line, angering Russian nationalists who consider the plan an offensive danger and who may respond by ousting the new democrats, stopping the reduction of nuclear and chemical stockpiles and resuming nuclear threats? Is it sensible to extend a military alliance and in the process...
...many Harvard students subscribe to the notion that anyone educated outside of these ivy walls, or any idea or institution which does not bear the veritas shield, should be discredited or discounted...
...bearded propagator, dressed for the occasion in a lilac purple T-shirt emblazoned with a Harvard shield where the word "Veritas" was replaced with "Syringa," said that most of the Arboretum's lilac plants are "cultivars,"--bred for their various horticultural merits...
Leaning on my right leg to brace against the 40 mile-per-hour winds, I watched as the crew on the deck connected the F-14 "Tomcat" to the catapult. The blast shield behind the plane's twin engines rose and so did the noise...