Word: guardedness
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But 50 National Guardsmen patrolled the area with fixed bayonets. An Army patrol boat stood watch a stone's throw out in the St. Lawrence River. And Hawk-eyed, lanky Ed Starling, chief of the White House secret service detail, soon had the Presidential special hauled out of the...
Swarms of Stukas dived on every passing merchantman, sinking ten out of 21 vessels in a single convoy of small ships guarded only by trawlers due to a growing shortage of destroyers. Far to the north, above Ireland, German bombers attacked a convoy that had been sent around that way...
Quick was Harold McEnness to surmise that the Germans either had learned the secret of the closely guarded U. S. bombsight, or had developed one of their own. Quick were Army Air Corps officers to say that the U. S. sight was still a U. S. secret. But none doubted...
Fortnight ago, the wheat markets alternately boiled and froze with rumors. The spring wheat crop in a dozen granger States was almost ready to harvest. It was the season of the private guesstimators, who multiply rainfall by wind damage, divide by brigades of bugs, and sometimes pull figures out of...
More than gas masks were needed by 1,640 war prisoners, mostly German but including some middle-aged Italian merchants and businessmen interned when Italy declared war. They were loaded into the 15,501-ton Arandora Star and headed for Canada around the north end of Ireland, guarded by 200...