Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"You can never find a cop when you need one." The old saw is painfully true about New York City's cops on the beat, the problem being that there is too much beat and too few cops. In 1929, some 4,000 foot patrolmen guarded the parks and...
Fearful that the King might use the incident to incite more trouble, Chief Jonathan placed the youthful monarch under heavily guarded "protective custody." As reports reached the capital of sporadic fighting between police and the King's men in the rugged outback, Chief Jonathan expelled eight political figures, including...
The man who made it a decent contest was captain Gene Dressler, who played one of the finest games of his career. Dressler constantly drove into the lane whenever his man gave him a millimeter, and he drew numerous fouls. In addition, he guarded his man beautifully. He dislocated his...
The mystique of kingship recedes into the mists of prehistory. Kings were not merely the well-muscled types who could grab the best females and strong-arm the rest of the tribe. They were magic-the precious contact between little groups of fearful humans and the awful forces of fertility...
All week rumors buzzed that the phantom was dying. As usual, Multimillionaire Industrialist Howard Hughes, 60, remained shrouded in a private world, expensively and almost pathologically guarded from outsiders. The stories said that Hughes, suffering from emphysema and Addison's disease, went to Boston for treatment four months ago...