Word: guarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...letter he can send each month to his mother, who lives in Norwich, England, or to his girl friend, Shirley McGuinn, who lives in London. He desperately awaits their return letters. He can see the mail arrive in the court yard, but he must then wait for the guard to deliver it, usually in a batch, days later. His own letters, guarded and understated, convey the agony of isolation. "You often say you hope I am keeping cheerful," he recently wrote his mother. "It would be quite dishonest to say I was cheerful. After more than a year...
...Declaration, which opposed the Nazi infiltration of Christianity as a heathen profanation of God's message. Expelled from Germany in 1935, Barth continued his war of words against Hitlerism from the University of Basel. Later he volunteered for the Swiss home defense force and served as a border guard during World...
...title is the first eye opener: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea. The figure's mouth is an angry gap, its nose vaguely phallic, its ears two wooden plugs, its body a cupboard. When a viewer (avoiding the museum's watchful guard) opens the cupboard door, he finds a tiny armless man dangling head down from a trapeze. Beneath, a ship is sinking in a sea of bottle tops. A savage commentary on the condition of man? A joke? If it is a joke, it is one in which the viewer does...
...GUARDS: John Skinners, Xavier, 6 ft. 3 in., 255 Ibs.; and Rufus Mayes, Ohio State, 6 ft. 5 in., 250 Ibs. Few college guards are big enough to hold their own in the pros, and the pros usually fill the position with the fastest and most agile college tackles. In the case of Shinners, however, this need not be true. He is a stick-out at guard, with "great maneuverability, good lateral movement and the speed to pull out and lead sweeps. He's a winner-period." Mayes is a converted tight end with "excellent balance, quick feet...
...adjuster sued for slander and collected a $1,000 judgment. Because he sued, even though he won, he has since been classified as a "dangerous" credit risk, on the ground that he is "litigious." He has been unable to find employment, except as a $2-an-hour security guard...