Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came down from Akagi's bridge by voice tube, and the air officer flapped a white flag. At that instant, slanting and howling down at 70° out of light clouds, the SBD Dauntless dive bombers of Enterprise and Yorktown bore down undetected and unopposed. "Helldivers!" screamed a lookout on Akagi. Within minutes the dive bombers scored a fabulous nine hits and mortally wounded three of the Japanese carriers. Within hours, Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were on the bottom...
...settlement resembled a fortified medieval monastery (see map). There was a central building, originally about 124 ft. square, adjoined by a complex of rooms, passageways and cisterns. At one corner was a formidable tower with three-foot-thick walls, probably designed as a lookout post and last-ditch defense point. Other rooms included kitchens and refectories, a scriptorium and a pottery (where the scrolls' storage jars were presumably made). Flour mills, storage bins and ovens have also been 'uncovered, indicating a highly self-sufficient community...
...just out of college starts at a good salary (currently from $432 to $500 a month), raises are sometimes slow in coming. "Your own company can never understand why you're worth much more two years after being hired," said a 34-year-old electronics engineer on the lookout for a new job, "whereas another company figures that they're getting real experience." Said a Curtiss-Wright engineer: "The general opinion is that if you want more money-change jobs...
...campaigning in Miami. "It's absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept it up from supermarket to street corner for 4½-hours. Then, with a quick stop to vote at the Lookout Mountain schoolhouse above Chattanooga, he flew back to Washington...
Blaming Stockholm for the crash, the Italian Line charged that the Swedish ship failed to keep a good lookout or make effective use of her radar, was proceeding at immoderate speed through the fog, failed to stop engines after hearing Andrea Doria's fog signal forward of her beam, altered course to starboard without ascertaining the course and position of Andrea Doria, failed to sound proper whistle signals, failed to stop and reverse engines when the danger of collision became apparent, and was proceeding eastward in the path of westbound vessels...