Word: guardedness
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For the past nine weeks Room 475 in the ornate old U. S. Post Office Building in Chicago's Loop has been carefully guarded from the press. Three tired deputy marshals, under orders to arrest loiterers, watched the three entrances and occasionally looked into an adjoining toilet to see...
No privilege is more zealously guarded by Latin American nations than the right of asylum in a foreign embassy or legation. In the topsy-turvy politics of South America no statesman can tell from one day to the next when the wheel of political fortune is going to turn violently...
"I believe it is the most sacred and precious spot at the Fair," cried New York's Mayor LaGuardia at the opening. Precious to the tune of $30,000,000 in insurance, the paintings were hung in a windowless concrete and steel building, thorny with burglar alarms, guarded day...
After lunch the King wanted a smoke badly, but could not light up, according to the protocol that rules his conduct until he had been toasted. The Prime Minister tapped a bell, and, in Veuve Cliquot '28 the guests toasted first the King then the Queen, then both. Then...
In recent months rumors have reached steelmakers that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., whose stockholders have fared thinly in recent years, had developed a photoelectric indicator ("robot eye") which, by judging the color and brilliance of a Bessemer heat better than human eyes can, made it possible to...