Word: bodyguard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once she signaled over her shoulder to her bodyguard, who promptly delivered a large oblong box of undecorated cardboard. Laughing like a girl, she lifted the cover and pulled out, as if by magic, one long, pleated black skirt after another...
Restless, Chiang Ch'ing arose, beckoned me to follow, and motioned her bodyguard to lead the way through the tall doors that opened in to the pitch-black night. Obviously perplexed, [the aide] reached for his flashlight and plunged ahead into the humid night air and faint moonlight. She followed him and I her. Chiang Ch'ing had deliberately led us out of reach of the indoor microphones [two had been placed before each of them to record the interviews...
...tour began when I was being driven from Kampala to Entebbe in Mr. Bob's car. The President passed by on the other side of the road in his Range Rover, stopped, turned round and joined us as we also stopped. He ordered out of his vehicle his bodyguard, an Acholi, from the tribe that, it is alleged, is being massacred in northern Uganda. The bodyguard then traveled in Mr. Bob's car while our little British journalistic group drove with the President...
...research on industrial uses for thermonuclear energy with Mentor Tamm. There was little life but science-and the mandatory state "supervision" that went with it. For all of the 18 years (1950-68) that he held his top-level security clearance, Sakharov was never without the shadow of a bodyguard, even when he slept or went swimming. There were, however, compensations. He won the Stalin Prize and was thrice awarded the country's highest civilian medal, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He was the youngest member ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences...
...tradition in private-eye melodramas, the enormously complicated plot is merely a convention permitting the hero to come into contact with large numbers of colorful characters, here including a very shifty informer and a bodyguard who thinks he's tough until he runs into Wells, who is not quite as fragile as he looks...