Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more difficult task will be winning the Paul C. Staake Regatta at Coast Guard. A great deal will depend upon which regatta the various college teams concentrate on. Harvard has quite a bit of depth, and it could win this event also if most of the good crews sail at M.I.T...
...York Mayor John Lindsay trudged through the unplowed streets of snowbound Queens absorbing the taunts of angry householders. "Just try to get elected again!" yelled one woman. Trying to do just that, Lindsay last week returned to the same territory in a strange, triumphal procession. Surrounded by an honor guard of garbagemen aboard new snowplows, Lindsay soothed housewives with promises that they would never be snowbound again. The natives, while still skeptical, were nevertheless far friendlier than they had been last winter -and even friendlier than only a few weeks...
...canceled 100,000 tourist visas for travel outside Czechoslovakia. Only supervised groups and party members on official business are now allowed to cross the borders into the West. On the day the new rules went into effect, trains and buses rolled out of Czechoslovakia nearly empty, and border guards stamped "canceled" on the visas of motorists headed out of the country. A pretty blonde, prevented from crossing into Austria, asked forlornly: "Is this something temporary?" "Everything is temporary," replied the guard. "Even life...
...They painted me with black paint," he said, "and forced my arms behind me so that my body was bent forward. Whenever I tried to straighten up, a Red Guard punched me in the stomach. I sweated so much that a pool formed on the ground under my eyes and I could see my reflection in it." Then, after a sudden silence followed by applause, "I was told to straighten up. A few inches in front of my eyes dangled the body of my cat, Ming Ming, hanged from the roof by a washing line." When the crowd began chanting...
...recent interview. "I came across the Mexican border one time with 21/2 pounds of grass around my waist in a silk scarf. I had one of those wide Mexican belts around me over it. I had a big bottle of tequila and I went up to the border guard and offered him some, and he said,'No, go on through, senior...