Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wound with clean salt water; this may sting when applied to a raw area but it is good local treatment. Do not attempt vigorous cleaning of fuel oil from a wound; the oil is unlikely to do harm. . . . Sick men are apt to become restless and lightheaded. . . . Keep a lookout that they do not go over the side, because sick men sometimes imagine they are back at home . . . and will, for example, want to go and get themselves a drink of water...
Ensign Willett heard the lookout sing...
...Miles's new owl-sight goggles are designed to eliminate this period of waiting for the eyes to get used to darkness. Having found that the rods work better in red light, he made his goggles of red filters. A lookout who wears them for 30 minutes before going on duty can see almost instantly when he steps into darkness...
...weather report broke in at this point. An exasperated listener, Lookout Staton Brooks at Mount Wrightson, got the weatherman to hush so the network could hear "a couple of American planes in the Pacific." They heard...
...whip is to keep a finger on his party's pulse, head off revolts against Administration policy, keep a sharp lookout for opposition deals. With the Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and Majority Leader McCormack, he helps plot procedure and strategy. When votes are needed, the whip must bring them...