Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kill me! Kill me! I have AIDS!" yelled Joseph Markowski, a drifter and prostitute, as he tried to grab a Los Angeles bank guard's gun. Detained for a 72-hour mental-health observation, he was released prematurely by county health officials the following day. Meanwhile the police were investigating a disturbing item found in his clothes: a receipt for $9 from a Los Angeles plasma center...
Among the first sights greeting visitors to Le Bourget was the gleaming red- ; white-and-blue U.S.A. Pavilion -- and on its roof the figure of a security guard with a sniper rifle. All attending the air show were scanned for weapons at the entrance; business visitors then had to be reexamined before they could view the commercial displays in the American pavilion. Many wondered why they had to go through the double ordeal when just two minutes away Soviet hosts were admitting one and all, save those who were smoking or eating. "The State Department made us do it," explained...
...first time, Becker was a playful puppy with huge paws. Since then he has grown 2 in. in height, to 6 ft. 3 in., and a regimen of running has slimmed his legs and streamlined his carriage. "I have become an athlete," he says, resembling a basketball guard. "I'm not Dr. J, but I can dunk a basketball, just barely dunk it. Picking up a ball, any kind of ball, I always had a feeling for it. I knew how to handle it. I liked it." As Becker has grown physically, a part of his original appeal has diminished...
...voting participants at the denomination's annual meeting in St. Louis turned to the report of a "Peace Committee" that was set up in 1985 to mediate between two S.B.C. factions. On the right, the Fundamentalists insist on inerrancy -- in essence, a literal interpretation of the Bible. The old-guard moderates, whose hold on denominational agencies and seminaries is steadily weakening, tolerate less rigid views...
Those advocating retreat, in its various camouflages, ought not to be debating whether our defense budget should be $303 billion or $289 billion. Thirty billion ought to be quite enough to maintain all that their foreign policy would require: a few nuclear missiles and a Coast Guard to patrol the Florida Keys...