Word: shield
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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While I don't heartily approve of all the tactics of the Dies committee, I believe that this committee has justification for this actions, because those who use as a shield the "Inviolability of the human person," are those who would destroy this inviolability at the first opportunity, and they must be dealt with by special measures. Thank God we have a Dies committee to disclose and put to an end the Trojan Horse methods of Communists, as advocated by Commissar Dimitroff...
...pulled at Harvard by some of the biggest men in the country." Colonel Apted has a telephone and a cashbox beside his bed, is accustomed to getting up at all hours to bail out Harvard tosspots. When a socialite is arrested, Colonel Apted always takes along an overcoat to shield the boy from photographers. He lends Harvard men money, takes care of their parking tickets, runs their blackmailing floozies out of town...
Many of Richard Wagner's heroes (Siegmund, Siegfried) are huntsmen. Hunter Siegfried begins his career by bringing in a live bear, earns his spurs hunting a 20-foot, papier-mache, steam-spouting dragon, ends up by getting hunted himself and being carried home on his shield like a dead stag...
...After this barrage had cleared away ... four thirty-ton Russian tanks appeared from a timber clump and started advancing across the snowy waste to the foot of the hill. Crouched behind each tank were about twenty men, using it as a shield...