Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political and military leaders of France, their tricolor sashes and bemedaled uniforms testifying to their country's proud if sometimes painful past. Outside in the courtyard, drawn up on one side of a red carpet that stretched across the white gravel, stood a company of the Republican Guard, resplendent in their 19th century red-trimmed uniforms. Down the ribbon of carpet last week walked Georges Pompidou, the man to whom France has entrusted its destiny for the next seven years...
...hear the West German generals tell it, their soldiers are so inept and so lacking in morale that they would scarcely be a match for the Beefeaters in the Tower of London or the halberd-bearing papal guard. Speaking to a closed session of officers at the Leadership Academy near Hamburg, Major General Helmuth Grashey complained that the Bundeswehr (literally, Federal Defense Force) is burdened with too much civilian bureaucracy and hounded by an ombudsman who undermines officers' authority by listening sympathetically to soldiers' gripes...
Under this scheme, a final vote on in stalling the missiles themselves could be deferred until next year without causing significant delay in the present Safe guard schedule. (The first two sites were to be fully operational by early...
...little about it in medical school. The great British physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington described pain as "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." More simply, pain is what the victim perceives in his mind after he has touched a hot stove-and reflexively pulled back his hand to guard against further burn damage...
Died. General Sir Miles Dempsey, 72, British infantry officer who commanded the rear guard at Dunkirk, and led the British Second Army when it stormed Normandy's Gold, Juno and Sword beaches in 1944 but later passed up offers of higher command and resigned because "I have spent too much of my life smashing things up"; in Yattendon, England, precisely 25 years after Dday...