Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd. Apiphobia spread-both literally and figuratively. That night, at the state banquet in Diamond Jubilee Hall, President Nyerere also indicated a reluctance to get stung. Coolly thanking Chou for the $45 million in Chinese aid pledges Tanzania has accepted (but not yet received), Nyerere declared: "We have to guard the sovereignty and integrity of our united republic against any who wish to take advantage of our current need in order to get control over us ... from no quarter shall we accept direction, and at no time shall we lower our guard against subversion. Neither our principles, our country...
...bullet-pocked National Palace on the fringe of the rebel zone. From the first days of the civil war, the palace had been held by Imbert's loyalists, who beat off rebel attacks. Now Alvim wanted the shooting to cease. As the OAS troops marched in to guard the building, Imbert's soldiers reluctantly got into trucks and withdrew, leaving behind only a corporal's guard...
Every Thursday morning, in a ritual as fixed and revered as the changing of the guard, the Bank of England's 18 di rectors meet behind its Corinthian col umns and mahogany doors to plot their strategy for protecting the pound. In measured tones, they debate how much money to borrow in the domestic mar ket, whether to buy or sell sterling in foreign markets and - most important -whether to change the bank's interest rate. After each meeting the chief liai son man, Peter Daniell, dons his top hat, starts on a 21-minute walk across Bartholomew...
...Communist Huk rebellion by offering the malcontents "total friendship or total war." Diem offered neither. Tax col lectors, not aid officials, followed his troops into liberated villages. Suspicious of his own generals, Diem rarely committed his reserve forces to battle when needed largely because he wanted to guard against a coup...
...into a student who really does know more than you do," concedes Harvard Fellow Howard Felperin, 24. "Then you don't get a teacher-student relationship but a mutual inquiry." Sometimes, admits Janis Hull, 27, an attractive brunette and a three-year TA at Cal, "you have to guard against too much social involvement." She recalls the "young gentleman student" who stopped by her house "to discuss a poor grade on his Aristotle paper-and just happened to have a bottle of Jack Daniel's in his briefcase...