Word: guardedness
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Before the Premier's office in Brussels unarmed Resistance men & women shouted: "Resign!" Before the Parliament Buildings, guarded by gendarmes with fixed bayonets, marched noisy hecklers. Despite the ban on mass rallies, excited crowds assembled in the Cirque Royal, tumultuously cheered the Communist ex-ministers, denounced the Government measures...
Germany. When Germany was invaded, there was still no completed plans for its occupation, said Dewey, although General Eisenhower had warned last January that the U.S. would have to deal with that problem in 1944. And when President Roosevelt met with Churchill at Quebec to discuss such plans, he took...
Sentinels Silenced. Even then, the landings in force could not be made with the shattering surprise characteristic of other amphibious assaults in the Pacific. Surprise had to be sacrificed, because Leyte Gulf was guarded by three sentinel islands. On A-minus-three,* company combat teams from an Army Ranger battalion...
¶ One long-guarded secret: 92% of all casualties occurred in London.
During all the muddled months of U.S. "expediency" toward France, he reported directly to the White House-whence the soothing policy was laid down. He was never in a policy-making position, but he occupied a spot where his opinions carried weight. In his new job, as in the old...