Word: guardedness
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In a guarded hotel above Casablanca's grey-green harbor Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt talked for ten days. The continent of Europe was their oyster, to be pried open, then stabbed with all the armed might at their command. How they would gain the opening, when & where they...
The Credit. Results came fast: a sharp cut in gunsight building time, praise from the Navy and millions of dollars in orders for torpedo directors (1,000 parts, superfine machining), gyroscopic contraptions to offset warship roll, other precision instruments. Meanwhile General Mills put at least one super-secret device into...
"Have an appointment for three," he whispered. He thrust his appointment card toward the starched uniform. "You are number 52," the voice laughed. Bloody 52, Vag shot back, silently. He shuffled from desk to desk, chilled as the dour, guarded faces nodded and smiled toothily. He started, then settled back...
Since July, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers have clung to the east bank of the malaria-infested Salween (TIME, Dec. 7). For months they have guarded the pocked and broken upper half of the Burma Road which still belongs to them. In the first few days of the...
Although Collins, who has been with his present job only five months, has guarded many of the College's ivy-clad buildings on the night shift, he has never had to call out the Yard cops or turn in a fire alarm. Rowdy students just don't seem to cross...