Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the initial Nanjing fracas, some 140 African and other foreign students were held under protective guard at a guesthouse for ten days. On Dec. 31, provincial authorities sent paramilitary police into the guesthouse to arrest "ringleaders" among the Africans. Armed policemen allegedly herded coatless students outside in zero-degree weather, then pummeled them and jabbed them with electric cattle prods...
...took too long coming out of the huddle after the timeout, so the referee put the ball on the ground and started counting for a five-second violation. Afraid he was going to run out of time, Cornell guard Monte Boykin ran over and tried to inbound the ball quickly, but instead threw it wildly out of bounds...
...maid at the inn claimed that Lewis offered her cocaine, and Washington, D.C., police officers investigating the complaint left the hotel after encountering a Barry security guard in the hall. Lewis has since disappeared, and police found traces of cocaine on a table in his room...
...most literal sense of the word. Since founding TreePeople, he has enlisted volunteers everywhere, from senior citizens' homes to grade schools, to plant millions upon millions of trees. He has persuaded nurseries to donate unsold seedlings they would otherwise have destroyed. He has coaxed the California National Guard ("all those empty trucks and planes sitting around") into helping transport the trees. He once even persuaded Club Med to rescue and care for two exhausted TreePeople volunteers in Senegal who had fallen ill while planting fruit trees in famine-stricken African countries. "I don't know how many bureaucrats have laughed...
...changing of the guard among divorce lawyers...