Word: guardedness
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This jibe sorely vexed the League Committee of Five which meanwhile had received Ethiopia's guarded acceptance of their scheme "as a basis for discussion." Italy's scheme, the Committee hotly reported to the League Council, is "unacceptable and not susceptible of discussion within the framework of the League Covenant...
A longtime flea on the British lion is the Upper Mohmand tribe, a wild, haughty, hairy group of Pathans who periodically attack the Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect...
Soon French warships in the harbor swept the rooftops with their searchlights while crack French Colonial marksmen tried to pick off the snipers. All Colonials used in the streets were white, the Government announced, but Toulon's electric plant and some Municipal buildings were put under guard of coal...
Septuagenarian Henry Holiday Timken, Canton's No. 1 citizen, lives in baronial splendor in his Canton home, is sometimes called "The Millionaire Nobody Knows." Around his estate is a high iron fence guarded by watchmen who question all who attempt to enter. Deaf, Mr. Timken expresses himself in curious...
One dark, still night last week sentries guarded the lonely road to the Navesink station. No wisp of fog was in the air.