Word: guardedness
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Life in the city ground to a virtual halt. In between bouts of shelling, people rushed out to buy food and find water. Streets were deserted save for motorists looking for an open station and their share of increasingly scarce gasoline. The highway to the south, though guarded by Syrian...
Sir Paul Scoon, meanwhile, became in effect a one-man local government, backed by the authority of U.S. guns. He acted decisively in severing all diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and Libya, ordering them to close their embassies. He directed that the Cubans retain only one diplomat on the...
The main questions involve the ease with which the terrorists' Mercedes truck burst through Marine defenses last Sunday. At 6:22 a.m. it rolled through a Lebanese Army checkpoint that guarded access to the Marine base (1), and drove south into the airport's unguarded civilian parking lot...
Meanwhile, the source of the brouhaha, Larry Flynt, is about to come under some official scrutiny. The U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles has launched an investigation to find out how Flynt got his hands on what was presumably closely guarded Government evidence. The mercurial publisher, basking in the media lights...
There may never have been a soloist who passed so freely over the closely guarded borders between jazz and classical. Marsalis, who has just turned 22, makes the usual declaration at customs ("I'm just a musician, I just play music"), but though his predisposition may be toward jazz...