Word: guardedness
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The day of the referendum was more peaceful than many observers had predicted. The people went calmly to the polls-under the eyes of Polish Army troops who guarded balloting places with bayonets fixed. It was typical that the Army's own ballots were not secret but bore each...
The summer solstice, the year's shortest night, seemed short indeed to the diplomats and Parisian socialites passing the illuminated Vendome column. They pressed into Chez Paquin, where a fashion show and ballet celebrated a fateful meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. The night seemed long to newsmen...
Guarded communiqués reported four important breakthroughs on the tuberculosis front. Yet strategists and tacticians alike muffled their enthusiasm in public; the fight was not yet won; TB was still the No. 1 killer of U.S. citizens between 15 and 35.
These things non-prisoners transients saw at Lichfield. What went on behind the barred windows, only the prisoners and the guards knew, and the guards spoke only to one another. The situation, to outsiders, was as full of intrigue as a paper-bound detective novel, and when prisoners left Lichfield...
Inadequately guarded P.W.s have been stealing and reselling surplus material at an officially estimated minimum rate of $1 million a month, with single transactions running as high as 500,000 francs. Proceeds go into cigarets and drinks or into buying false identity cards for use in underground transportation back to...