Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hung grey-eyed in their dribbling wake. For a day and a half, Fred and I raced through the tidal hours in his bronze-bodied van, but the American whatever stayed with us always. Caught in its plastic envelope like marbles in a dime-store package, we pressed never-ward with eight cylinders and 287 horsepower, spinning down white-aisled roads, waiting to be torn free...
...grew more famous in the 1960s, he began holding his annual Delos symposium, a week-long Aegean cruise to which he would invite 30 or so distinguished thinkers. A typical guest list would include the likes of Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Industrialist Robert O. Anderson, Economist Barbara Ward and Media Guru Marshall McLuhan. It was, Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, the closest thing to the great English house parties of the turn of the century-stimulating talk in an informal atmosphere...
...watch over the Salzburg sessions. More than 2,200 Austrian police and security men were mobilized, to add to the small armies of plainclothesmen that Ford and Sadat were bringing. Armored cars and armed soldiers ringed Salzburg's airport, and detecting devices were strung around the airport to ward off intruders...
...change practically everything. By 1980 oil royalties and taxes are expected to hit $1 billion a year or twice as much as the state's current budget. Most important, the pipeline will give Alaska a chance, at long last, to escape from its status as an underdeveloped, impecunious ward of the Federal Government. The state's optimists predict that employment will double in five years...
...even this tragedy did not appease the authorities. Ivan Dejmal was "treated" for several weeks in a closed section of the Psychiatric Ward of the Military Hospital in Prague in conditions only marginally better than in prison. Then he was sent back to his unit. In less than a week, the secret police concocted a case for arresting him again. Dejmal's next trip led to the infamous Ruzyne prison in Prague, where he is held...