Word: guardedness
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More important perhaps than any statistical balance sheet was what seemed to be a new awareness of what the Alianza can and should be. As Brazil's Minister of Planning Roberto Campos observed: "Neither our fate nor our salvation are in the stars. They are within us ourselves." By...
Topping the list of shopworn journa-ese was the verb "hail," a pet of head-ine writers (MAYOR HAILS HOMETOWN HERO) as well as reporters ("New Yorkers hailed their first rain in six weeks"). Univac awarded second place to the phrase "violence flared," third place to "flatly denied." The rest...
In the wake of Univac's report, the A.P. had no immediate comment. But a usually reliable source hailed with guarded optimism the fact that, percentagewise, the A.P. copy came out relatively cliche-clean. Even the first-place winner, "hail," was found only nine times among the 375,000...
At some point in their lives, roughly 10% of Americans will probably wind up in mental hospitals - a statistic that poses hard questions of civil liberty and medical necessity. Though critics decry the use of police to "arrest" mental patients, Hill's rights were well guarded by California'...
The next day, Tshombe slipped into Cairo before dawn in another attempt to crash the conference. He was captured by Egyptian security forces, placed in a guest house guarded by paratroopers, and held incommunicado. In retaliation, Congolese policemen, and later troops, sealed off the Egyptian and Algerian embassies in Leopoldville...