Word: guardedness
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The graduation ceremony was heavily guarded, and only students, relatives and friends with tickets were admitted. Although the ceremony was taped and shown on news broadcasts, no reporters were admitted. Outside, School Department spokesperson James R. Ball told reporters to leave the students alone.
At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuban refugees cavort happily on the beach in a scene reminiscent of a Club Med. They have good reason to celebrate: soon they will be flying off to freedom in the U.S. Meanwhile, less than a mile away, more than 200 Haitian children lounge listlessly...
Cole found that Fargoans do their homework. "Before meeting me," she says, "one businessman insisted on doing a computer data-base search of all the articles I ever wrote." But to Cole, once a "jaded, guarded New Yorker," Midwestern charm has proved contagious; she felt at ease with her subjects...
Sequestration is always difficult, notes psychologist Valerie Hans, author of Judging the Jury. But the O.J. jurors have been subjected to "one of the most intrusive juror questionnaires I have ever seen. It asked many private questions.'' Watching fellow jurors being investigated and dismissed--in one case the juror's...
"We were trying to force Dartmouth's attackers to play defense on our attackers," senior co-captain Genevieve Chelius said. "Then when our attackers went down field they were being guarded by other attackers who weren't good defenders."