Word: bodyguard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building into the intellectual mecca of the millions of free Chinese in Southeast Asia (TIME, Aug. 16). Day after day, Lin was singled out for special attack in the press; he received an anonymous threat to his life, was forced to go about the city with a police bodyguard. This month, when Lin finally resigned, ostensibly because of an argument over his 1955 budget, the Communist school infiltrators scored what may well be their most significant victory...
Some young doctor is supposed to have wandered into the Capitol and shot Huey, but an even 70 percent of the B.M.O.C.'s known it was his bodyguard, who was after money or something. Naturally, an even 70 percent of the B.M.O.C.'s don't trust their friends. More specific cases will be enlightening...
...order to write an exposé. Both the underworld and the police promptly mistake Reporter Dan Lewis for a mobster from Kansas City. After taking a brutal beating, he is put to bed by a brunette bit of fluff who soon climbs in with him. Dan becomes a bodyguard for a gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie ring of his own. He all but forgets about reporting as he becomes infatuated with the world of crime -with its sense of power, its money that produces a kind of evil freedom, its masculinity ("The deferential male...
Senator Eastland mentioned that a Communist-assigned bodyguard was staying with Matusow almost every night. "With whom," he asked, "did you spend the other nights?" "It was a lady friend," replied Matusow. He refused to name her, not out of gallantry alone but because "if you force me to tell. I'll never be able to return there." It was "no lady," shouted Eastland, but "a Communist bodyguard." Matusow insisted that it was a lady. "I did," he snapped, "play chess with a lady on Thursday night...
...watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth made his way unnoticed into the presidential box, fired a bullet into the back of the President's head, and escaped across the stage to his horse in the back alley. Where was Lincoln's bodyguard? John F. Parker, of the Washington police force, was drinking at a bar next door; he had deserted his post at the door to the presidential box, through which the assassin passed. Who was Parker? A questionable type with black marks on his police-force record (all kept from Lincoln...