Another theory holds it could be derived from the Hebrew verb root חפה (hafa), meaning to cover or shield, i.e. Mount Carmel covers Haifa; others point to a possible origin in the Hebrew word חוֹף (hof), meaning shore, or חוֹף יָפֶה (hof yafe), meaning beautiful shore.
Then I would raise the controller and see the arrows stick harmlessly to the "shield" I had raised.
When I heard that someone had saved forty-five lives by acting as a human shield, I just wished that that could have been me.
After seeing Michael Chiklis in the emasculated-househusband sitcom "Daddio," a few years ago, I never wanted to see him again; now, watching his sensational performance in the FX police drama "The Shield," I can't get enough of him.
He mentioned that his son Luke had served in the first Gulf War: "I told him when he was over there for Desert Shield, I said, 'Well, here's what's going to happen.
Superstitions and curses are so frequently invoked that when I proposed earlier this season that NY was in a good position to win the Shield, I was shushed by people complaining I had just jinxed the team.
"I don't think it's ever possible to provide a hundred-per-cent shield; I don't think ballistic-missile defense ever believed that they would be able to do that.
