Word: shields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practical political side, Diem believes that this goal can be best attained through bilateral defense pacts and cultural exchanges with his Southeast Asia neighbors. He wants to keep the shield of Western political protection, e.g., SEATO, U.S. military training missions, but believes they should be de-emphasized as much as possible in the public mind...
...concrete shield of the cyclotron swung open, and a masked scientist dashed wildly down a 100-yard corridor in a race. His opponents: a set of disintegrating atoms. Though it was quite unlike the procedure normally associated with the grave and careful laboratories of science, the race was crucial to the performance of that increasingly difficult feat-the identification of a new element. The story of how the 100-yard dash helped a team of international scientists create element 102 is told in SCIENCE, Chemists...
...that a major problem was to prove that it had been created at all. The scientists developed a technique that would have done credit to a team of Japanese jugglers. After the curium had been bombarded for about 20 minutes, the Swedes shut down the cyclotron. As the concrete shield opened, a group of scientists, wearing gloves and dust masks against radioactivity, dashed into the cyclotron chamber. One snatched the target from the machine, another took it apart and passed it to a third, who extracted the catcher foil. The fastest runner, generally Swedish Chemist Lennart Holm, then dashed...
...reject the idea that when the U.S. acts against citizens abroad it can do so free of the Bill of Rights ..." wrote Justice Black in the majority opinion. "When the Government reaches out to punish a citizen who is abroad, the shield which the Bill of Rights and other parts of the Constitution provide to protect his life and liberty should not be stripped away just because he happens to be in another land . . . We have no difficulty in saying that such persons do not lose their civilian status and their right to a civilian trial because the Government helps...
...overriding hurt from a change in U.S. China policy would be to the idea of a free Asia. Since 1950 the U.S. has delivered some $7 billion in aid to its key Asian allies. The U.S. has had more in mind than providing its allies with a shield against Red Communist expansion. The ultimate aim: to prove that, given security and political stability, a non-Communist Asia can simultaneously solve its economic problems and work toward improvement and independence of the individual-and thus give the lie to the Communist myth that the only answer to Asian poverty is totalitarianism...