Word: bodyguards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Ford, who thought the best government was that which governed the least, bitterly fought all the New Deal's works as well as the unions. His bodyguard and aide, Harry Bennett, onetime boxer who had become a top power in the company, was the man who barred the doors. But it was Ford himself who was responsible for the union-busting as his veteran secretary, Ernest Liebold, made clear in a tape recording for the archives: "Nobody was doing anything around Dearborn . . . that Mr. Ford didn't agree with 100%." In 1941, when the C.I.O. had ringed...
...orange grove in Auburndale, Fla., where he sampled this year's crop, he took his wife, daughter-in-law and little grandson, James Van Fleet III, on a visit near the town of Gruver in the Texas Panhandle. His host: former Sergeant Nick Holt, ,his driver and bodyguard in Korea. His entertainment: Texas-style coyote hunting by car and airplane...