Word: guardedness
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Tokyo was on edge. Assassination was in the air. Sentries guarded the homes of Cabinet Ministers. In his office, Tokyo Chief of Police Fujinuma nervously paced the floor. Finally he grew so nervous that he rushed to the residence of Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito, Premier of Japan. There he excitedly...
Timely cashing-in on the kidnapping epidemic, wherein the "phoney"' disappearance of a banker becomes real. In his fortified Park Avenue penthouse, a dozen others, guards and guarded, fret, stab and shoot, the good finally departing over the corpses of the bad.
Swastika banners hung from Frau Winifred Wagner's Villa Wahnfried, drooped over the street as Chancellor Hitler drove through cheering Fascist crowds. Scowling Brown Shirts, rifle at shoulder, guarded the entrance of the refurbished Festspielhaus. It was Nazi Day at Bayreuth. Despite Hitler's prohibition of demonstrations "not...
The great danger that must be guarded against if in truth we are headed for a greater degree of economic self-sufficiency is that this development will carry with it ia resumption of American political isolation. The delicate growth of political internationalism fostered by the League and other organs since...
Outside, rain poured down in sheets. Despite a seeming cure hemophilia-successively the curse of the Romanovs and the Bourbons-brooded over the match. In haste Father Borel read a brief Latin, service. Swiss police, alarmed by a threatening note that the bridegroom was in "grave danger," guarded every shadow...