Word: guardedness
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A month later, Perez's platoon was ordered into northern Afghanistan to help quell a prison riot. His unit guarded John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, and protected the body of Johnny (Mike) Spann, the cia operative who was killed in the uprising and was the first American...
The old soldier is beginning to show the strain. Musharraf still exercises every evening, briskly striding around the tightly guarded Army House compound. But he is suffering from a bum shoulder and can barely lift his arm. "See?" he says, failing to get it fully over his head. "That's...
I have never written a poem in my life. Poetry has always been to me a sacred threshold guarded by demons. I don't know why it is that some people ravished by great poetry spend their lives attempting to be poets, and some become literary critics. Poetry is not...
"Tell people in Hollywood that you're interviewing Tom Cruise, and you'll get two responses. One is, 'He's the nicest guy in the world.' The other is, 'Is he gay?' Interviewing him last week, the first thing I learned is that he likes to know whom he's...
Yet he can be as distant as he is pleasant, as guarded as he is engaged, his very politeness a kind of barrier. His steadfast allegiance to the controversial Church of Scientology, his surprising split a year ago from Nicole Kidman, the gay rumors (and his diligent litigation in response...