Word: guardedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tension). Ike could see the Parthenon glowing in light on the Acropolis, the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. At the Parliament Building, the royal guard of evzones, in their familiar red fezzes and frilled skirts, were drawn up to watch Ike lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier...
...crumbling walls of its Angevin castle still keep guard over Lundy's only landing place, whence the medieval barons De Marisco once dispatched their men to raid the coast of England. It was from Lundy that the elegant 17th century pirate "Admiral" Nutt defied the Royal Navy; where the smuggler Mr. Thomas Benson, M.P., fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon...
...inside the Indian frontier, if India will evacuate ten other passes and strongpoints along the border; 2) in the Western or Kashmir region, China claims to have been in occupation of large areas of Ladakh not for just two years but since 1950, and with the help of frontier-guard units and "3,000 civilian builders" to have laid big roads, "cutting across high mountains, throwing bridges and building culverts" without India's knowledge, thus making "absolutely unconvincing" India's claim to jurisdiction; 3) the strong implication that unless China gets what it wants in Ladakh, the Communists...
...them fatal) after the drug was stopped. Among the untreated 150, no fewer than 15 deaths appeared to be solely or substantially attributable to traveling clots. Like all anticoagulants, phenindione must be given under the strictest medical supervision, usually in a hospital, with frequent laboratory tests to guard against the danger of uncontrollable bleeding, and some accidents or illnesses would preclude treatment. But with these precautions, the British method looks promising...
...assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state legislature as a three-term Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat in the T.R. style, Lawyer Dana was an off-hours National Guard cavalryman, punched cattle in Mexico summers to stay in shape. At 36 he reorganized New Jersey's Spicer Manufacturing Co., maker of the first successful universal joint for autos. By the time Spicer was renamed Dana Corp. in 1946, it was a Toledo-based complex of five thriving auto-parts...