Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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His first shipments of cocaine to the U.S. were smuggled in suitcases; he even used his mother as a courier. From humble beginnings as a small-time pot dealer in New York in the early 1970s, Carlos Lehder Rivas rose to become a pivotal figure in the international drug trade...
Sturdy and reflective, unwilling to accept imported style wholesale, English artists and craftsmen took French Gothic and, once it had been imposed on them by the Norman hierarchy in the major arts like architecture, transformed it in their minor arts. The image of the cathedral as the castle of God...
Abruptly, a few dozen pages in, the narrative lurches from Miller's first boyish attempt at running away from home to his walking through Harlem streets nearly half a century later. The process of orderly causality deliberately begins to crumble. Thereafter, from paragraph to paragraph, Miller is a child, an...
"Companies are always guarded about any government regulation that has cost implications, and as in anything else, some are willing and some are not," he said.
The missile assault, assumed to be the work of Iran, was the first direct attack on any of the eleven Kuwaiti tankers that have been registered under the American flag and guarded by the U.S. Navy since July. The Administration quickly denounced the attack as an "outrageous act of aggression...