Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope they'll come in regularly, get to know their Physician well," he says. When people join the plan, they will have a thorough examination. In the unstructured way that most Americans guard their health, five or ten years may elapse between exams. Under the health plan, however, the aim will be on constantly-supervised care. The initial exam--accompanied by a barrage of "screening test"--may be able to pick up many potential problems long before they erupt. From the beginning, health plan physicians will emphasize nipping illness while it's easy to nip instead of waiting...
ABMIS: the airborne equivalent of SABMIS, now at an earlier stage of study. It would attempt mid-course interception of enemy missiles with projectiles fired from large cruising aircraft. One of its special missions would be to guard against submarine-launched missiles...
...going home to lunch, and the motorcade that assembled to take him to his house was routine security. Led by a policeman on a motor scooter, it consisted of three Jeeps filled with South Vietnamese cops toting M-16 rifles, a fourth Jeep loaded with members of the presidential guard and armed with a .50-cal. machine gun, and the Premier's aging black Mercedes limousine. On both flanks, the cavalcade was guarded by plainclothesmen riding Hondas...
Prosperity and Pogroms. Eshkol himself was probably the last long-term leader from the old guard, meaning, in Israeli terms, the early European immigrants who have long provided the nation's elite, often to the frustration of the impatient native-born sabras. His early years in the Ukraine were spent amid both prosperity and a continual fear of pogroms. At 19, he landed at Jaffa in the aliya, or immigrant wave, of 1914, and hiked across the sandhills to a farming village. As the need arose, he became in turn a farmer, soldier, irrigation expert and labor organizer...
...punches are pulled but they still send skaters sprawling. When the girls roll onto the Masonite track, the contact becomes more genuine-with shrieking, scratching and hair pulling thrown in. The female heavy is Joan Weston, a $20,000-a-year blonde Bomber who sends opponents flipping over the guard rails with one twitch of her mighty hips. As her bumpy, bruised knuckles attest, she can be equally menacing with an uppercut ("I can't keep a long nail," she says). She takes her lumps too, most often from a gang of Braves led by pert Marge Laszlo...