Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destroyer Maddox, patrol duty in Tonkin seemed as ho-hum and hum drum as duty on any of a hundred other routine tin-can patrols. In this case, the mission of the Maddox was mainly to show the U.S. flag and keep a casual lookout for Communist gun runners or seaborne Red guerrilla cadres. Occasionally the Maddox would slip up to within 13 miles of the Communist mainland, set her radar to sniffing the coast. But the real challenge to her sailors was to stay awake on lonely watches. Few of them even thought about combat; most, in fact, were...
Dean Watson said last night that the University "would not tolerate" the use of dope by any students. He emphasized that national, state, and city police officials were constantly on the lookout for any peddling in the Square area and that the University was always willing to cooperate with the various agencies. But Watson indicated there was nothing alarming in the present situation...
...Astruc should have been concentrating on the road as he drove along the icy edge of the Lot River in southwestern France. But Astruc is a spelunker, always on the lookout for potholes to pop into. To him, the little frost-free spot he saw in a limestone cliff suggested a cave entrance that had become plugged up. He stopped to probe the spot with a crowbar. Stones and dirt caved in; warm air whooshed out. Suddenly Astruc was staring into a narrow tunnel. "I was alone," he says, "afraid to go in very far, or stay very long...
...Kingsbury then suggested a preliminary trip through the Tunnel and gave us over to one of his engineers. Before we left, however, he surprised us with one statistic: 62 men, he told us, work full time in the Tunnel, keeping a 24-hour lookout for breakdowns...
Once we sailed north of England, past Iceland, to Boston. There were constant storms, and one night aurora borealis was out. Lookout was on the bridge--you would have been washed from the bow the way a seatainer trailor was washed from its lashings. Standing there and sighting along the ship, you felt yourself rise with a rumble over a wave, plunging down into the black night water. Then the foam broke over the bow and your eyes without moving your head were turned to those green and white fireworks in the sky. Up and down, black and light...