Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he thus replaced nearly all of Adlai's aides, the President offered neither explanation for the change nor praise for their past performance. That task fell to Goldberg, who paid graceful tribute to Stevenson's "old guard," adding: "We did not feel we had the right to exact further arduous service from people who had done so much...
...deed be dangerous, as was tragically shown in 1943 when a mental patient dumped 17 lbs. of it into 10 gals. of eggs about to be scrambled at Oregon State Hospital. The dead: 47. Even in lesser doses, sodium fluoride can be harmful. But health officers can easily guard against overdoses, pour just the right quantity into the local water...
...armed burglary to arson and murder. To complicate things for the courts, some of the prisoners gave fake names like Richard Burton and Edward G. Robinson. According to a tongue-in-cheek theory making the rounds of white Los Angeles, the riots had not been halted by the National Guard; they simply petered out when all the rioters went home to see themselves on their looted TV sets...
...highest court) discovered a fatal flaw in an Irish arrest warrant. According to an 1851 British law, the warrant required endorsement by an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, the British-paid police force that was replaced in 1922 by Ireland's own Garda Siochana (Peace Guard). Because the old constabulary was defunct, the House of Lords ruled that Irish warrants were no longer valid in Britain...
...George Balanchine's Don Quixote, Edie climbed to the highest balcony in Lincoln Center's New York State Theater to twist, while Andy and fellow onlookers toasted her in champagne from below. A week later they showed up at the exclusive dinner given by the old-guard Nine O'Clockers of New York, Andy dressed in his usual black, bespotted denim work pants and Edie in a black crepe evening gown with shoulder-length white gloves, topped with ostrich feathers...