Word: bodyguards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since prewar days, U.S. and British diplomats in Moscow have been trailed by bodyguards supplied by the Russian authorities "for protection." Last week U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, flying back to Moscow after a visit to Washington, was surprised to find no bodyguard to greet him at the airport and himself free for the first time to move about without escort. This is the kind of change meant to be regarded as a "slight improvement in relations...
...underworld." Once the goons and dope peddlers learned that he was a straight-shooter who would not betray them to the cops, they began to take pride in helping a man of science. Now, if he loiters on the steps of Manhattan's Astor Hotel, he needs a bodyguard to fend off the too-willing contributors...
...Potsdam, Kruglov set up the protection screen which surrounded the Big Three,-was one of the very few who had free access to Stalin's quarters. At the San Francisco Conference, turned out in a blue serge suit and broad-toed shoes, he was Molotov's bodyguard. Although Kruglov's police career dates from 1938, the year Beria took over, and he has always appeared to be a Beria man, the" Central Committee Presidium (Malenkov) was clearly in no doubt about where his loyalty lay, although Beria may have been...
...dangerous," such is the power of gossip: "Let me set it down, plain and positive: it is a dangerous practice for any minister to call on a woman alone in her home." If the minister is lucky enough to have a child below school age, this "is an efficient bodyguard...
Tired of Red infiltrators, he fired his cabinet. Leaping into his black Jeepster, supported by a bodyguard of 150 Cambodian stalwarts, he joined his six Cambodian battalions in an attack on a secret Communist stronghold at Angkor Wat. Wearing the uniform of a two-star general, he took personal command of the battle, sent his war elephants crashing through the flooded forest and his soldiers gliding in sampans among forgotten temples. In three days of fighting, he and his men routed the Communists and captured their headquarters. With a new cabinet composed almost entirely of his own relatives, King Norodom...