Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The proud U.S. Marine Corps, whose often heroic Leathernecks had long boasted of being nothing short of the best, was confounded. "We've now got to operate on the thesis that this is possibly an endemic problem in the Marines," said a senior officer at the Corps's Washington headquarters...
To avoid raising false hopes among cancer victims, researchers tend to use caution in reporting even the most promising advances in treatment for the dread disease. Yet two articles published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, while containing caveats, seemed reason for guarded optimism. Both dealt with...
Despite Commodore Perry and General MacArthur, the Japanese have rigorously guarded their culture, their minds and their gene pool against foreign influences. Today most of Japan's 120 million people still share an unshakable belief that they are different from, indeed superior to, all other people. Says Kuniko Inoguchi, assistant...
Ordinarily, the positions aired in the Supreme Court's private conferences are its most closely guarded secret. And canons of legal ethics have long forbidden judges to discuss unofficially with lawyers the merits of any case pending before them. But Brown was a case of "extraordinary" importance, says Elman. "The...
This unusual glimpse into guarded emotions can be found in Ozawa, airing on PBS March 27. Shot in 1984 by Albert and the late David Maysles, it is a backstage look at one of classical music's best-known yet least understood figures. Ozawa has been music director of the...