Word: guardedness
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Even in the company of men whose lives and works have been devoted to evil, Walter Ulbricht stands out as a man without warmth or sentiment, humor or mercy. "In Ulbricht," wrote a commentator who found some redeeming features in other German Communists, is "only the worst." Another once described...
On and up they stumbled, like flies on a whitewashed wall. An unmapped ice ridge stopped them, as it had stopped Team No. i. On one side, the ridge's gables projected over a face that fell 12,000 ft. Opposite was snow, firm enough for footholds, but guarded...
The gates of Canada's Chalk River atomic energy project, usually heavily guarded, were deliberately left deserted one recent evening. In lonely majesty a big road grader with a lead-shielded cab lumbered slowly out, towing a skid with a bulky, canvas-wrapped burden. As the skid scraped past...
The anti-execution sentiment was strongest in France, where the U.S. Government point in the Rosenberg case is not understood by one citizen in 100. (From 1946 to 1950, France had a Communist, Frederic Joliot-Curie, at the head of the atomic research program.) France's non-Communist daily...
Under the steel hand of the Soviet army, the workers' uprising against Communist oppression came to a bloody end. West Berlin alone counted seven dead and 119 wounded East Berliners in its hospitals; how many men were dead or injured in the Soviet sector no one knew. When night...