Word: guardedness
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To make the prosecution's case stronger, a medical examiner may be pressured to say a woman was raped before she was murdered, though the evidence is equivocal. Or the M.E. may be pushed to attribute the death of a person in police custody to the victim's use of...
The Peary-Cook rivalry began peaceably. Cook, nine years younger, was a steady, valued medical officer on Peary's first Arctic expedition. But Peary jealously guarded the acclaim he earned from the geographical establishment and the millionaires who ran it, so Cook set out on his own. Before long Peary...
For someone so involved in some of FAS' most controversial issues, Verba is a strikingly uncontroversial figure. He is universally well-liked among fellow faculty members, and even a minority student leader who was often highly critical of Verba's committee work offers guarded praise of the man.
Often when people are interviewed, they are on guard, wary that they may say the wrong thing or be misinterpreted. The more controversial the question is, the more guarded the answer. When we first introduced ourselves that day, people put up their guard, unsure what was coming.
If the Navy has its way, the Trident nuclear-submarine base at Bangor, Wash., will soon be guarded by an uncanny underwater-surveillance system. Vastly more powerful than the Navy's most sophisticated sonar, it can identify real threats to the base, distinguishing them from the normal cacophony of noise...