Word: guardedness
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Whether this was a legitimate request or just one more form of Russian harassment, Kennan could not be sure. The Russians said they need the place for expanding Moscow University, which is next door. The embassy building, erected in 1933 to house Soviet artists and composers, costs the U.S. an...
The news fell with a startling clatter into the delicate diplomatic machinery of the allies. Russia naturally wants what France proposes: around a conference table it could postpone, perhaps even block, ratification of the West German peace contract and the European Army treaty. Without advance warning to Britain or the...
The Indian boys were kept in a room with barred windows, and the younger and healthier one kicked, bit, hit and spat at every visitor. The older boy, who eventually recovered, was slightly more tractable, but for a while the little Indians slept one at a time, while the other...
A Roman Catholic priest and a psychiatrist have written a book that may solve, or at least clarify, some of the tension between their callings. Dr. Robert P. Odenwald, once a Berlin psychiatrist, now directs the Child Center at Washington's Catholic University. Father James H. VanderVeldt, a Dutch...
One of the most carefully guarded files in the Littauer Building is a folder of eighty odd sketches of members of the Economics Department by Professor Wassily Leontief. The secretaries of the building regard the collection jealously as theirs by right of salvage; after each conference one of them Leontief...