Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eaves of Vienna's Hotel Metropole, headquarters of the Gestapo in Vienna. The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post last fortnight reported it was practically certain that Dr. Schuschnigg would not be tried, more likely that he would soon be released to live, under strict guard, in a Vienna villa where he could be joined by his wife, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned...
Fearful thai attempts would be made on the lives of British Cabinet officials, their offices and homes were heavily guarded. An extra-strong guard was given youthful Malcolm MacDonald, Colonial and Dominions Secretary, who was instrumental in bringing the leaders of Eire and the British Government together for their compromise treaty of last April...
Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
This year, after two years of League championships and records, Coach Hal Uien and his boys may have to face the inevitable. Of the group of phenomenally fast swimmers captained by Charles G. Hutter '38, only one, Jim Curwen '40, remains. Most of the Old Guard have graduated and Willie Kendall has abandoned college leaving two intercollegiate records behind him. Uien, the sports-writers, and the fans are new forced to get accustomed to "normal" times. Only within the grasp of scholastically ineligible Curwen is the possibility of smashing a record in the Hutter story-book fashion...
Apprehended last year by the Coast Guard when he started on his trip for the first time, Heurtley started out again from Darien on October 27, and this time, unarrested, reached his destination safely...