Word: guardedness
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† A primitive, white-kerneled corn carefully guarded against crossbreeding with white man's corn.
In Philadelphia this week the U.S. would see a new kind of propaganda machine. It was streamlined, diesel-powered and air-conditioned. It rolled on rails, was painted red, white & blue, and was guarded by 27 marines. It was the seven-car "Freedom Train," a traveling museum carrying the original...
†When the U.S.-inspired revolution broke out in Panama, the U.S. cruiser Nashville and the gunboat Dixie guarded the entrance to Colón's harbor, to prevent landing of Colombian troops. The U.S. promptly recognized Panama's independence. Within a month the new republic granted the...
Jackie lives a long way from Harlem's high life, in a five-room, second-floor flat on Brooklyn's McDonough Street, in a Negro neighborhood. His name is not on the door, and he knows few of his neighbors. How he feels about them shows through the...
¶Illustrator Norman Rockwell roundly endorsed the suggestion of Massachusetts' Representative Edith Nourse Rogers that U.S. paper money be printed in different colors as an aid in distinguishing one denomination from another. The Treasury's response was guarded. Said one official: "It's questionable whether there aren...