Word: guardedness
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The Polish balance sheet could be put together only from fragments of news that slipped across the tightly guarded frontier. It revealed a grisly record of brutality, pestilence and starvation:
On the day he was arrested as a spy (with nine other notable Britons in Tokyo), Jimmy was at breakfast in their seaside house, an hour's ride from the city. Two Japanese major generals and an interpreter came to get them. They took him to police headquarters, held...
The Visitor. Frank Jackson, who came to see him at 5:30 that afternoon, was not, he thought, one of these agents. Though Frank Jackson was suspected in Mexico City of being a shady character known as Leon Jacome, as Leon Haikys, as Jacques Mornard van den Dreschd and sometimes...
> One morning when a British coastal convoy of 18 ships, strung out for a mile and guarded by destroyers, steamed under the tall chalk cliffs of Dover, a series of four bright flashes, closely spaced, followed by heavy smoke puffs, were seen on the French Coast, 20-odd miles away...
Installation Day arrived and Mexico City prepared for trouble. Picked squads of sharpshooters kept vigilance atop the brownstone building of the Chamber of Deputies. Others watched from adjoining housetops and armed peons guarded streets or careened through the city in trucks, shouting "Viva Avila Camacho!" Pistoleros prowled the Chamber and...