Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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We drove along a thin, wooded road and found the entryway into the ranch: laser-guarded, barbed-wired and accompanied by the anxious grrrrr of concealed attack Dobermans. A good omen--they had something in there worth hiding. A walk around the property's perimeter at first yielded only more...
"This is eerily reminiscent of last summer and last month," Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell told a press conference. "We clearly believe we are dealing with a deranged killer, but one who is very clever." Investigators were somewhat more guarded. "We're not ruling out the possibility of a serial bomber...
For the offspring of beloved political leaders, weddings are tough to pull off, no matter what country they take place in. But a Gandhi wedding in India is even more unwieldy than a Kennedy wedding in the U.S.--after all, nobody rocked up to that island off Georgia and claimed...
"It was billed as a matchup between him and Kyle, but we guarded Okonkwo quite well," Sullivan said.
His earnest courtship of congressional Republicans has resulted in one early, tentative payoff. For once, no one's lips are forming the words "dead on arrival" to describe the President's plan. But they are guarded. "I'm not sure he has the political stroke yet to get done what...