Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ephs' leading scorer is Kevin Sheenan, a hefty 6-6, 220 pound center. His substitute, Bill Unterucker, also stands 6-6, and promising sophomore forward Bill Drummond is 6-4. The rest of Williams' lineup consists of 6-2 forward Tom McPherson, 5-8 sophomore guard Jim Kramer, and 6-0 guard Irv Blond...
After Diem. Even the South Vietnamese populace is impressed-no mean feat, considering the fact that for years the police had been little more than pawns in Saigon's political chess games. President Diem turned them into a family guard and on occasion played them off against the army. He created a subdivision known as the "combat police" that he used to raid pagodas during the feud with the Buddhists that ultimately led to his downfall. After Diem's government was overthrown, the canh sat were so demoralized that the Americans often called them "the white mice" because...
Facing his first freshman football scrimmage without his pair of thick glasses, the burly Amherst guard could scarcely see. He didn't need to. Flailing arms, elbows and fists, he hurled himself at every vague shape that moved, and he made the tackle on almost every play. After 20 minutes of watching the myopic terror at work, the coach pulled him out of the scrimmage and gently reprimanded him: "It's only a game...
...subject in perspective, cutting everyone down to size with his sardonic sense of humor. When Dan Ferris retired as executive secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union in 1962, Woodward expressed unabashed pleasure. "As a tour conductor of American athletes abroad, Ferris ranked with Mike Quill's newest subway guard...
...Bogalusa Deacons are never heard and seldom seen. They guard the homes of civil rights leaders at night. They provide armed escorts for rights workers traveling into, out of, or across town. During every march, six or seven of them sit quietly in cars, parked at strategic points along the parade route. They don't make daring sorties into the white neighborhoods or exact any sort of revenge. They seem much more like a volunteer suburban security patrol than dashing vigilantes...