Word: guardedness
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The work of Mark Twain is America's literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay...
When 18-year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia arrived in Manhattan for a visit, a force of nearly 450 cops and detectives guarded him. He established himself in a 40th-floor suite of the Waldorf-Astoria Towers, held audiences, dined with the Governor, the Mayor, generals. Then, like almost every...
WPB did not take quite so rosy a view, but assigned priority-guarded materials for erection of a small Thiokol plant which will turn out 40,000 retreads a month. If all goes well, more priorities will be forthcoming to increase production to 160.000 retreads a month, or some 2...
How could a 63-year-old slither down a makeshift rope from a cliff-walled Nazi fortress? How could a politically important prisoner escape from such a feudal bastion, guarded every hour by men alert to his potential value? Why would such an escaped prisoner walk into the arms of...
After the war, Pan Am will have another kind of battle on its hands. Many of its new routes tangle with British Overseas Airways' jealously guarded Empire routes. Cunard has announced that it may be forced to start air service after the war; so will many another U.S. and...