Word: guardedness
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The verdict was swift and harsh. "We the jury find the defendant Wayne Bertram Williams guilty on count number one... guilty on count number two," said Foreman Sandra Laney, a cable television worker in Atlanta, after the jury had deliberated only eleven hours. Williams, who had managed his own radio...
Over the two-day lobby effort, the initial cynicism of many sympathetic congressmen turned to guarded admission that the effort "may have changed a few minds," said Barbara Tornow. Brandies University's financial aid director, who helped coordinate the Massachusetts arm of the lobby.
The attack was carefully timed and perfectly executed. Members of the Marxist-dominated Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week slipped under cover of darkness among the open hangars at El Salvador's heavily guarded Ilopango military airport. They placed explosive charges around some of the country's...
A bustling tourist haven in the past, the nation's capital (pop. 1.5 million) currently resembles a city under attack. Major hotels are cordoned off and closely guarded. Some skyscrapers have a spooky, battered look; as many as one-third of their windows have been blown out by leftist...
Walesa was so angry that he scarcely showed up on the convention floor after the vote, preferring to watch the proceedings on a TV monitor in a well-guarded room near by. Nor did he even bother to read the session's final