Word: shield
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Harvard had four players in double figures-Mustoe, Dover, Lewis with ten points, and junior guard Matt Bozek with 12. That kind of balanced scoring, if it continues, will shield the Crimson from strong individual defensive performances by its opponents...
After sending off the novel, Mishima joined four young students who belonged to the ultranationalistic paramilitary Shield Society that he had formed two years ago. For the first time in weeks, the sky over Tokyo was free of smog. When Mishima and his companions reached Ichigaya Hill in western Tokyo, the headquarters of Japan's Eastern Ground Self-Defense Forces, sunshine bathed the midday. Mishima had arrived on the threshold of his life's climactic act. It was the sort of act, Japanese Literary Critic Kenkichi Yamamoto wrote later, that "reached its apex in one pyrotechnic explosion beyond...
Vanishing Field. Exactly how the reversals could have wreaked such biological havoc is a matter of dispute. Some investigators have theorized that the deterioration in the earth's protective magnetic shield during reversals of the magnetic poles allowed an increased amount of damaging solar radiation to reach the earth. More recently, a number of geophysicists have calculated that even if the magnetic field completely vanished during reversal, the additional radiation would not be intense enough to destroy entire species. As a result, some investigators are beginning to think that the changed magnetism itself may somehow have been responsible...
...Robert Taft Jr. (7), while in Tennessee, Albert Gore (8) aims a mighty swipe at William Brock (9). In Florida, Lawton Chiles (10) closes with William Cramer (11), toe-deep in the Gulf of Mexico. And across the water in Texas, Lloyd Bentsen (12) raises his shield against George Bush (13). Finally, out on the Coast, John Tunney (14) wields a boxing glove bludgeon against dancing George Murphy...
...heart attack; in Warsaw. First suggested in 1957, the Rapacki Plan would have banned the installation of nuclear weapons in an area encompassing Poland, Czechoslovakia and East and West Germany. The Western powers rejected the idea for lack of adequate guarantees and on the grounds that a nuclear shield in West Germany was essential against the Soviet bloc's preponderance of conventional arms...