Word: bodyguard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloak) is a story of the past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...
...Bodyguard of the University during air raids and blackouts, the Harvard Company of the Cambridge Auxiliary Police fulfills a dual purpose. As one of Cambridge's ten or so companies, the Harvard unit aids in preserving law and order in case of aerial attack, but besides this, it is assigned to the special mission of guarding the College property...
...last week the shadow of hated Major Helm, Gestapo chief for the puppet state of Croatia, swaggered in the sun across the Square. Somewhere a rifle's muzzle nosed from a window. A shot clapped. Gestapo Chief Helm flopped down on his shadow, dead. Enraged and terrified, his bodyguard swung their pistols on the crowd, hurled hand grenades among the tables of a close-packed sidewalk cafe. When screams and explosions died out, the wounded lay moaning all around the Square and some 700 were dead...
...sleeping bodyguard, a big, tough veteran of World War I, got to his feet. He had two broken ribs. Perhaps it was unfortunate for Heydrich that Hitler was within hearing. Otherwise Heydrich might easily have died, sooner, to be sure, but more quickly and pleasantly than he did last month in Czecho-Slovakia...
...sleeping bodyguard, a big, tough veteran of World War I, got to his feet. He had two broken ribs. Perhaps it was unfortunate for Heydrich that Hitler was within hearing. Otherwise Heydrich might easily have died, sooner, to be sure, but more quickly and pleasantly than he did last month in Czecho-Slovakia...