Word: guarde
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...Thompson had Charles Smith, his starting guard at Georgetown, shooting bricks...
Along with 6000 Red Guard members, Xuelianglater helped to wrest the city of Ching Yang fromthe control of almost 100,000 peasants. TheGuard's three-day fast in that cold March promptedthe central government to force local authoritiesto appease the students and expel peasants fromthe city...
Armed violence increased among Guard members asthe Cultural Revolution progressed, and the youthstole weapons from the state army, Xueliang said,adding that when he was caught taking threehandguns from an army unit, the soldiers gave himone gun "for encouragement...
When the conflict escalated, Mao ordered thearmy to restore control, effectively ending theRed Guard's revolutionary effort in 1969, Xueliangsaid. By the movement's end, he said he hadattended four massive demonstrations during whichhe witnessed 20 murders...
Another essential rule about lying is that the timing has to be perfect, a subtlety to which vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle is not attuned. When someone asks you about your decision to use family connections in joining the National Guard during the Vietnam War, the right lie is not: "I did not know in 1969 that I would be in this room today...