Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better Late. In Albuquerque, police were warned to be on the lookout for two escapees from the Arkansas state penitentiary: Frank Duke, 42, who made off in 1934, and Jim Freeman, 71, who turned the trick...
...dropped, a British lookout spotted a Russian officer checking Communist positions on the hill. Suddenly the officer fell flat on his face. The British and West Germans guffawed. The Russian glared, stood up and fell again as though it had all been a planned maneuver. The Westerners cheered. All that night the men on both sides remained at the alert for an overt move. It never came. Next day the Life Guards decided the Russians would not invade and rolled back to their barracks. The German frontier guards followed. The Communists climbed out of their foxholes and marched home...
...Lookout Mt., Tenn...
This is certainly not what was done in the present case. That a Boston Newspaper published a sensational article about it is not the most surprising of all. It is common practice that newspapers and their reporters ever be on the lookout for sensationalism. In our days, big juicy headlines have too often become, more than the quality of the information itself, the usual means to increase sales...
...year-old reader of Treasure Island, who had become violently sick at his stomach from seeing the real thing. The Wing Sang's agents, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., promised to repay the passengers who had chipped in ransom money. British, U.S. and Chinese Nationalist ships kept a lookout for a handsome buccaneer, wearing brown leather gloves and a gold wristwatch, who made short speeches...