Word: shield
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...teacher's place to shield us from what some people might deem objectionable reading material. Instead, they should teach their students to read and to judge for themselves what was meant, allowing them to form their own intelligent ideas of what is right and wrong...
Died. Lansing P. Shield, 63, president (from 1947) of Grand Union Co., onetime $20-a-week clerk for A. & P., who joined Grand Union in 1924, waged such a vigorous campaign to move the company's antiquated stores into the supermarket field that he won the top seat, where he boosted sales from $83 million to more than $600 million; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...many hopes. For the same reason the U.S. will have less privacy and more urgency in facing 1960's other problems, old and new: the dangerous U.S. lag in space achievement; the delicate, perilous balance between fiscal responsibility and military strength; the integrity of NATO as a free-world shield; the unrest in the U.S.'s backyard as shown in 1959 by and-American riots in Bolivia and Panama and by the bearded demagoguery of Cuba's Fidel Castro...