Word: guardedness
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Messed Tapes. For almost a year after the taping was disclosed in July 1973, the tapes were guarded by Retired Major General John C. Bennett, who resigned his White House job last April to become a vice president of a pipeline company in Alaska. Says Bennett: "It is hard to...
They check the tapes out of the locked and guarded room of the Executive Office Building next door to the White House. Then Stephen Bull, special assistant to the President, sorts them out by number and date, as designated in the subpoenas.
The whole composition changed. With a rending of the whole pattern of being, a ship was received by the horizon. An abdication was signed. A whole universe was thrown away. A ship came in sight, to throw out the universe that had guarded its absence... We are too accustomed to...
In Syria, President Nixon could see visible proof of the searing nature of the problems that he was trying to help solve. As his plane approached the airport, he could detect in the distance the salient from which, by coincidence, Israeli troops that day were beginning to pull back in...
This, by the way, is not the same as "Who cares?" a distinction which surely, standing alone, is reason enough for guarded optimism.