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Word: bodyguards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the "greatest football possibility" he'd seen in a long time, jumps up on the platform every Sunday after Feeney is through and says if anybody tries to hurt Feeney, it'll be over his dead body. Hugh, and his brother Joe, a former Harvard man, form a bodyguard for the aging preacher that rarely leaves his side...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...sharpest characters in Tokyo's gaudy Ginza district, Konomi has been in his time a gangster and political terrorist in Shanghai, a smuggler, black-marketeer and saloonkeeper in Japan. Konomi is also a man with important political connections. To forestall trouble, he is constantly accompanied by a bodyguard, a onetime lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Army. Still and all, it was as a humanitarian that Konomi filed a request with the Welfare Ministry back in 1949 to build a bathhouse for Tokyo's working classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tempest in a Tub | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The British Election: The Tories | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...plot at home. Naif, deciding he liked the feel of power, was conniving with two cabinet ministers and Jordan's chief justice to dissolve Parliament and proclaim himself King. He would be backed by the guns of the Arab Legion's Hashemite regiment, the King's bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Friend or Foe? | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Vacationing in Venice, Winston Churchill was behaving in a strangely camera-shy fashion. An Italian newsreel cameraman managed to get some pictures, only to lose them when a bodyguard snatched the film. Two other photographers in a rowboat had better luck when they caught Churchill in the surf, where the only thing he could do was splash water at them. He cooled his nerves later in the casino, where he played roulette until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Young in Heart | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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