Word: guardedness
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I wish to reveal a carefully guarded secret: faculty members have private lives. Even graduate students (who endure many abuses on the grounds that it would be bad for their careers to do otherwise) may have a right to privacy. Let me illustrate some common examples of what happens when...
Indeed, the imperial splendor of presidential travel sometimes stuns even Presidents-including Ronald Reagan. Before his summer vacation last year, Reagan demanded that his aides explain why nearly 200 Government employees had to be flown to California to stand by while he rode horses and chopped wood at his ranch...
In addition, "the current trend toward joint appointments is something to be guarded against." Hopkins said, noting that the next two tenure offerings are to be joint appointments with other departments, which may divide the professors' loyalty to the department.
On the West Bank, fighting flared again. In the village of Ya'bid, near Jenin, a band of Arab youths, armed with knives and homemade firebombs, attacked an Israeli army patrol. The soldiers opened fire, wounding three Arabs. Elsewhere, three soldiers were injured in stoning incidents, and a member...
The way is blocked by sirens, ogres and, in the literary Establishment, men who have been turned into swine. There is even a faithful Penelope. On the other hand, Cato Douglass is meant to be a star witness for the prosecution of society. In fact, the novel's memoir...