Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes before a night's fighting, the militias would assemble in one of their strange churches with templelike, turned-up roofs and bulbous bell towers, from which a lookout kept watch. Under the slant-eyed gaze of watercolor saints, they would sit holding their rusty rifles, sing hymns, receive a benediction and melt into the darkness...
Died. John Garnet Carter, 71, onetime real-estate promoter (Lookout Mountain's Rock City) and originator (1928) of the on-again, off-again national craze, miniature golf; of a heart ailment; in Chattanooga...
...Ones. An education officer in Kenya described how the Communists are willing to reach halfway around the world to win their African converts. "Some of our Kenya young men have been sent to England for advanced study. But they have been lonely in London . . . Communist agents . . . are on the lookout for just such young men. They are very friendly. They invite them to tea and to evenings of discussion. The lonely students respond quickly . . . and before long they are well on their way to becoming full-fledged Communist agents...
...such heavily traveled routes as the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a Riss truck passes on the average of once every twelve minutes, day and night. Riss himself likes to escape from his business by hopping into his DC-3 and running up to his $200,000 luxury lodge at Sioux Lookout, Ont. He leaves Riss & Co. in the hands of his son Robert, who at 27 is president of the company and day-to-day operating boss...
Last week FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover brought the atomic-bomb threat down to earth as he warned the U.S. to be on the lookout for enemy bomb smugglers. Probable items in their equipment...