Word: paranoidly
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...July 30: I have been far too paranoid, it's very easy to move about here. Still, it is almost impossible to start up a conversation about politics with anyone outside the university, and hard enough there. Yet you still find a few.... Best of all was the old lady who runs a little bookstore. The best thing in her politics and history section was about an Indian revolt in 1847. I asked if there was not something "more recent." She caught my meaning. "All the current stuff that isn't pure propaganda is illegal. If I had it here...
...wife to live as best he could in the provinces. For three years, he was officially "isolated but preserved." Then, in 1938, at the height of the purges, Mandelstam was rearrested and sent to a labor camp near Vladivostok. He died there at 47, starved, frozen and justifiably paranoid...
...Puccini-like tenderness, and the rollicking minstrel beat under the Apostles' chant, "What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening," is a Cakewalk of pure joy. The swinging gospel-rock music sung by Judas (Tenor Murray Head) brings him brilliantly to nagging, skeptical, near-paranoid life. Sound effects add to a building sense of drama: the listener hears the slap of 39 lashes over a satiric rock beat, as well as the noise of nails being driven into the cross...
...morning, a group of hippies came to Chang to report on John L. Frazier, 24, a former auto mechanic. He had dropped out of the straight world and attempted to join the Santa Cruz hippie community. But he was considered "a real freak," Chang was told, and "paranoid" about ecology. Acting on the tip, he learned that Frazier had lived for several months in a 6 ft. by 6 ft. shanty half a mile from the murdered family's home. Two days before the slayings, he had abruptly moved...
...Washington, officials were frankly worried about the possibility that a radical group might try to kidnap or assassinate a U.S. official or a foreign diplomat. Rarely has the capital been so security conscious. "I'm sorry, but we've got to think paranoid," said one of the government's top security officials last week. Secretary of State William Rogers and other high officials have been urged to vary the routes they follow to and from their offices. The Secret Service is rapidly adding 300 more men to a recently created 550-man Executive Protective Service assigned to guard the embassies...