Word: bodyguard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people put forward a representative to stand up for their cause -a representative they make into a great man. And he is the root from which tyranny always comes. . . . How does he turn into a tyrant? . . . The tyrant's great and famous step [is] the request for a bodyguard to keep the representative of the people safe for them...
...people grant it-being afraid for him and not for themselves . . . and once he has this bodyguard, this champion of the people clears out his rivals and stands up-a perfect and finished tyrant-no longer the representative of the people but their absolute master...
Ruark's column had most of the sordid story next day. Luciano had been in Cuba since October. He had a bodyguard, and otherwise lived in the manner to which his earnings from women and the dope trade had accustomed him. Among the folk he had been seen with in Cuba were such divergent characters as Ralph Capone (Al's brother) and Frank Sinatra...
...University of Geneva's Professor William E. Rappard pointed to Germany as the nation which had done most to make "her scholars the intellectual bodyguard of her warlike rulers. . . . [But] who, in this totalitarian age of ours, is without sin in this respect? .... Those who expect the university ... to turn out good citizens in the conventional sense of the term, successful men of affairs and staunch adherents to any prevalent religious, social, or political creed, will inevitably be led to limit the freedom of research and teaching...
...stage, it was Lily Pons wearing diamonds and emeralds, and singing in Valentina-designed costumes, one of which showed her navel. A detective stood in the wings, guarding the jewels. In the audience, a gem-barnacled first-nighter, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, was watched over by a gun-toting bodyguard, but managed to lose a bracelet...