Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the week the Japanese struck. Lookout stations on the border of Szechwan Province spotted the planes, flying high. Chungking authorities were notified. Alarm sirens wailed. All over the city frantic Chinese hurried out in the open, crying "Chin pao! Chin pao!" ("The alarm! The alarm!"). In the downtown areas, where shopkeepers had built wooden stalls over the ruins from last May; up on the hill, where the livid scar of a huge incendiary-bomb fire had been covered with a town of mat sheds; across the Yangtze River, where the U. S. Embassy stands-all through the city...
...people of Britain-who could hear the roar of artillery across the Channel, who were short of sugar and bacon, who patrolled their roads day & night on the lookout for parachutists-Winston Churchill at week's end made an eloquent radio speech, telling them that worse was in store for them in a war that would be fought to the end. High points...
Boston, Cambridge and Yard Police and John M. Cochrane '43 are now on the lookout for a person responsible for a Yard robbery which left the Freshman without his only timepiece for three days and permanently without his week's allowance, which he used to get the valuable out of hock...
...reaction. The Rev. James Little, M. P., called Parliament's attention to the alarming state of affairs. Inspectors of the London County Council began visiting cabaret bottle parties ("clubs" at which customers may obtain liquor after legal drinking hours from wholesalers with whom they are registered), on the lookout for "abominable scenes." Two hundred M. P.s signed a motion in the House of Commons "deploring bottle parties." Britain's official moral police chief, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain, convoked a conference to discuss nudity...
...preparing to assist in the blockade of Vladivostok. A handful of passengers-missionaries, German merchants, two or three mysterious White Russians-were lolling in the lounge; a couple of junior officers were playing ping-pong; below decks a horde of Chinese coolies bickered and laughed. On the bridge the lookout casually noticed the approach of a Japanese torpedo boat