Word: guardedness
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"We have built up a defense force superior to any other in the world. . . . The German people . . . can go about their business with perfect tranquility. Their frontiers are guarded by the best Army in the history of Germany, the air above is protected by the most powerful Air Fleet, and...
Up the Hudson rolled more echoes of war. Behind the guarded gates of Manhattan's West 50th Street pier the kits of 190 British tars were hoisted aboard the ponderous Queen Elizabeth. Within a fortnight she was expected to set out for Halifax, where 12,000 bunks would be...
Last week 30-odd U. S. publishers, editors, reporters completed a tour of Canada's defenses: infantry training camps, the snappy artillery centre at Petawawa, even snappier Air Force stations at Camp Borden, Trenton, Uplands (Ottawa). They even got a long look at the crowded, guarded port of Halifax...
Chicago's first known white settler, a French trader named Pierre Moreau, was a bootlegger as far back as 1675. Before Indians and bears had been driven from the log village in the 1830s, gamblers, harlots, pimps had arrived. Thieves preyed even on the dead: private detectives guarded Chicago...
But the risks at Dakar were bigger than Charles de Gaulle figured. It was a harbor inside a bay, terribly confined for naval action. It was a town guarded by four forts and three regiments of about 7,000 French and Senegalese-wide-eyed Negro troops, some of whom had...