Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IT WAS all so superficial, so guarded, so deliberately light, and a little bit phony. It was exactly the kind of unsatisfying human interaction that I thought people at Harvard were trying to get away from when they invited us to the "so aptly named" spring festival at Adams house...
Hickel's associates seem impressed with his enthusiasm and drive. What remains to be seen is whether energy can produce results in the most jealously guarded of all federal sanctuaries, the Washington bureaucracy.
Premier Tran Van Huong was 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...
Two roads lead to Kallia. One is closed by an improvised Hebrew sign warning of mines. The other is guarded by a shapely, smiling, blue-eyed blonde wearing fatigues and armed with a rifle and transistor radio. "We girls do the guard duty in the daytime. The boys are on...
That is why Congress defends itself with such passion. Its members battle constantly with the President, and they attack the Supreme Court. As a few hundred poor people converged on Washington last May, the legislators decreed drastic penalties for demonstrations in the Capitol; a month before, machine guns had guarded...