Word: guardedness
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The defendants claimed that they were "prisoners of war" and refused until three weeks into their ten-week trial to appear in court. Then they reversed themselves and asked to come to Judge Elvin Sheehy's heavily guarded courtroom. They cross-examined witnesses, and at one point Little lost...
Brief though it was, the President's Italian visit contributed to what was a major purpose of his journey: to give Western Europe's leaders a chance to size up Gerald Ford. Their guarded verdict: passing grades for the President. "His only real slip was the physical one...
Kearns and Goodwin insist that they had only the quality of the book in mind and never expected such an outpouring of newsprint and vitriol when she switched publishers. Whenever I call Kearns, I ask, "Don't you think you made a mistake?" and she always croons. "No, I just...
His own sentiments on the war are clear, and he has fought it since 1967 in the best way he knows--educating Americans. Still, he has carefully guarded against letting his politics color his academic work. "I think it would be wrong to be a propagandist," he explains. "In this...
All the while understanding how precarious an effort it is to avoid sanctimoniousness and racism. Americans should reject the view that these 130,000 refugees form a monolithic bloc of people each with an equal right to political asylum. Some should be denied the security and moral sanction of asylum...