Word: vigilantism
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The bulk of the Security Council members clearly favored Hammarskjold's approach. The Russians, though they might lose no opportunity to prove what vigilant protectors they are of new African nations, almost certainly had no intention of making good on their talk of armed intervention in the Congo. The...
All three Western leaders have another consideration in mind. They worry that Nikita Khrushchev may have concluded that between now and November U.S. policy will be paralyzed and he would have a good opportunity to create a new crisis over Berlin. The meetings of Europe's Big Three were...
In 1638, finding herself childless, a widow, and sole executor of a large estate, she began, in a "wary, hardbitten, and vigilant manner" to carry on the tradition of the merchant aristocracy to which she had always belonged.
The Times's readers are exacting. From sobering experience, the Times's Executive Editor Thomas C. Harris, 51, has learned that the green benches lining Central Avenue are crowded with retired authorities from every imaginable-field, all vigilant to catch the Times in error. Running a filler item...
Cohn pointed to the arsenal of existing state and federal laws that could be used against illicit labor practices involving larceny, assault, bribery, conspiracy, and income tax underpayment. Vigilant officials could use exciting weapons effectively to curb labor excesses, he said, naming as an example the actions of Thomas Dewey...