Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anti-sniper teams guarded the area aroundMemorial Hall, keeping watch from the roof of theSchool of Design across the street. A police dogsniffed photographers' bags before the Princearrived, and members of Scotland Yard were also onthe scene.
Mengistu has had more success against the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, the largest and strongest rebel force. More than 50,000 Ethiopian troops used tanks and dense air cover late last year to drive the Eritreans back to their stronghold in the war-ravaged town of Nakfa. The two...
Some court watchers think they see a recent willingness in Rehnquist to be more accommodating. This spring he joined the court's majority in Wygant vs. Jackson Board of Education to strike down racial quotas in laying off schoolteachers, even though the language of the opinion included a guarded endorsement...
Professors are not the only ones noted for their peculiar sense of humor. During the school's annual Ditch Day, seniors secure their rooms with a variety of fiendishly clever locks and barriers, then leave campus and challenge the wimps (underclassmen) to get in. This year one room was guarded...
For six months a tiny brunet, known to her instructors as Lena Rigon, had been taking helicopter-flying lessons. In reality she was Nadine Vaujour, 34, wife of one of France's most carefully guarded prisoners, and she had learned her lessons well. At 10:45 last Monday morning, Nadine...