Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last year 6,000 German troops, joining U.S. Seventh Army veterans in "Winter-shield" maneuvers along the Danube, put on a dazzling show. In one swift swoop, a German armored unit, theoretically knocked out a battalion of Seventh Army tankers and infantrymen...
...history, that great majorities can be poisoned and ruined by a single person and in gratitude will in their turn poison and ruin honest people - that a majority which has once been lied to can go on wanting to be lied to, and raises ever new liars on its shield, as if it were only one single conscious and resolute scoundrel...
...Becket himself-whom Henry made archbishop as his shield against the church, only to emerge Becket's target-rewardingly probed. This is a troublesome task, for Becket's abrupt shift from worldling to ascetic, from Henry's helpful administrator to his hostile priest, needs probing; indeed, the whole unsimple man who suddenly found God needs probing. But the Becket whom a historian has dubbed "a great actor superbly living the parts he was called upon to play" seems far less than that, even with a great actor, Laurence Olivier, on hand to play him. Olivier...
...cosmic radiation. The U.S.'s interplanetary probe, Pioneer V, reported a sinister, unpredictable enemy lurking in space: wide-ranging "storms" of deadly proton particles, spewed forth by the sun, of such energy (up to 20 billion electron volts per particle) that they will easily penetrate the thickest protective shield...
Sculptor Crawford endowed his Armed Liberty with every cliche available-an olive branch, a wreath of wheat and laurel, the customary sword and shield. "These emblems are such.'' said he confidently, "as the mass of our people will easily understand." But somewhere along the line the olive branch was dropped, and for the head wreath Crawford substituted a liberty cap in a tribute to the freeing of the Phrygian slaves in ancient times. This was too much for Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. As a result, part of an eagle with a lot of feathers was scrunched...