Word: shields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of rain, the ceremonies will take place in Memorial Hall; the luncheon will take place in the Yard regardless, as large tents will shield the proceedings...
...middle ground, between medical "free enterprise" and national health insurance, are the "voluntary insurance plans," such as the Blue Cross (hospitalization) and the Blue Shield (doctors' fees). At the Assembly they were represented by Dr. Paul R. Hawley, former medical director of the Veterans Administration. The Blue Cross and Shield, said Hawley, if properly developed and extended, can enable people to prepay their medical costs while avoiding the disadvantages of "socialized" medicine. As proof, he cited the rapid recent growth of the two plans. Together they have 37,500,000 members; Blue Shield has increased its membership...
...Boston Traveler's Frank Gushing, for outstanding news photography. The picture: a boy gunman using another youth as a shield (TIME, July...
...Around him, whether they liked him or not, whether he liked them or not, all anti-Communists were rallied. This tall, lanky man with chilly blue eyes, aggressive nose, a wide, grimly compressed mouth, was the bearer of Christian Democracy's standard-a red cross on a white shield, with the legend: "Liberty...
...comics any more corrupting than the classics? Of course not, said Capp. He told of a typical American family ("named Kinsey, of course") that wanted to shield young Kingsblood, 11, a comic fan, from "stories of murder, crime, violence and S-E-X." Before the Kinseys were through, said Capp, they had thrown out Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare and everything but the phone book. Cracked Capp: "Mr. Brown is sorry that Li'I Abner isn't Huckleberry Finn. I'm sorry that Mr. Brown isn't George Jean Nathan...