Word: bodyguard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceremony in the 750-seat common council chamber, his inauguration took place in the 7,500-seat municipal auditorium, with the entire city council seated at desks on the stage, planes soaring over the roof, a police band tootling, choruses paeaning, a multitude admiring. The mayor's new bodyguard: a singing...
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim has been a soldier for 58 of his 72 years. He served his Tsar as a bodyguard, as a colonel in the Russo-Japanese War, and as the leader of his Uhlans. He fought with brilliant disobedience in World War I, with savage pride in the Finnish civil war. He spent 21 years building a courageous Finnish Army, 3½ months leading it in a death struggle. When such a man must address his troops in defeat, they may expect memorable words. Last week the hardbitten, tired old soldier ad dressed...
...revered and respected has Mohandas K. Gandhi been that he has never felt the need of a bodyguard as he travels about India. Recently however, demonstrators in a Calcutta suburb booed at the wizened little old man. One even dared to throw a shoe which barely missed the Mahatma, hit his private secretary. This is India's worst insult. Later, the Mahatma was greeted at a station by a group carrying black flags-another Indian symbol of rebuke...
...night of the Sam Jones victory parade, Governor Long left turbulent Baton Rouge, drove to New Orleans, where the Long machine had won. He went to the Jung Hotel, kept his room number secret. His armed bodyguard threatened to smash the camera of any photographer who tried to photograph him. After two days of seclusion, newspapermen got to him, asked for a statement. "I don't owe the newspapers a God damned thing," said Louisiana's bitter, beaten Governor...
...Lhabrang Monastery he was hissed and stoned by pilgrims. The expedition took two years, gave Colonel Mannerheim a reputation as a scientist as well as a soldier, made him a commander of Uhlans. In 1913 he rose to be commander of the Tsar's Uhlan bodyguard. When the war broke out he was a major general...