Word: shields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there ere was strutted to the front. His armor was a bright puke green, and shone like an emerald in the sun. His armor was a bright puke green, and shone like an emerald in the sun. His lance was as long as his sword was sharp, and his shield bore the emblem of a mug. He was known as the Knight of Delta Pi Epsilon...
...Americans have difficulty understanding Mexico, they have to a certain extent a valid excuse. In response to their country's tumultuous past, wrote Poet Octavio Paz in Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexicans have erected elaborate psychological "masks" to shield themselves from a world that they "regard instinctively to be dangerous." One such mask is machismo, the image...
...Defense had opposed the use of American forces and that Dr. Kissinger was "leaning against" it. (This was no longer true; I had changed my view at least a week earlier. In my opinion Nixon lumped me with his two Cabinet members because he genuinely and generously wanted to shield me against departmental retaliation.) Nixon assured them he would assume full responsibility for the decision...
Much of the energy in the mental health field is now going into jockeying for Government and private reimbursement. In April the American Psychiatric Association hailed as "a terrific triumph" a federal court decision involving clinical psychologists in Virginia. It upheld the Blue Shield's policy that benefits cannot be paid to psychologists directly but only through medical doctors...
Young learned negotiation and conciliation in the Italian and Irish neighborhood of New Orleans where he was born 47 years ago. His grandfather was a prosperous "bayou entrepreneur," his father a dentist, and his mother a prominent black Creole. Although they tried to shield him from racial prejudice, Young recalls: "I was taught to fight when people called me Nigger, and that's when I learned negotiating was better than fighting." After going to Howard University and Hartford Seminary Foundation, he eventually moved to Atlanta to work with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1972, after...