Word: shield
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Protective Shield. "All of this was changed by our Pacific victory. Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean, which has become a vast moat to protect us as long as we hold it. We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands, extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Marianas, held by us and our free allies. From this island chain we can dominate with air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore, and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific...
...That depends on the city: what kind of buildings it has, how thickly it is built up, whether it is built on a plain, in a valley, or on hills (which shield the areas behind them). With this AEC information as a guide, New York State's Civil Defense Commission, headed by General Lucius D. Clay, last week made an estimate for New York City...
...week's end the Reds were still trying. Their estimated casualties in this action alone: 2,400 dead and wounded. Major General Hobart R. Gay, the 1st Cavalry's commander, reported that the Communists were using hordes of civilians, armed only with sharpened sticks, to shield the advance of their regular troops...
...when the child was small, if she stopped in the street to clap her hands, or "if, without reason, she began to dance," passersby did not think it odd. Later, they stared. "The kid is nuts," Pearl Buck once heard a woman say. "From that day I began to shield my child...
...harder to shield herself. "I did my work . . . But none of it meant anything . . . The hours when I really lived were when I was alone with my child . , I could let sorrow have its way . . When she wept," her child would only stare and laugh, and "it was this uncomprehending laughter which always and finally crushed my heart...