Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some time now," says Rollwagen, who reports that the tunnel is 8 ft. high, 4 ft. wide and lined with 4-by-4 cedar boards. When a tree fell through the top of the tunnel several years ago, Cray used the opening to install a periscope-equipped lookout...
...border region remained tense, with Honduran patrols on the lookout for any booby traps left behind by the Sandinistas...
...Generally, I'm the biggest guy out there, so I'm supposed to block shots and take up space in the lane," Mohler says. "I have to be on the lookout for everyone else's man, because essentially I am a goaltender...
When Texas state inspectors set up checkpoints last week along two major highways leading into the state, they were not worried about escaped convicts or gunrunners. They were on the lookout for fugitives from Florida: oranges, grapefruit and other citrus. The roadblocks were the latest development in a tart tussle among citrus-growing states that began earlier this month, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture lifted a ban on shipments of the fresh Florida fruit to Arizona, California and Texas, among other citrus-producing areas...
President Reagan's decision to conduct an inquiry into the FBI's conduct shows there was no tangible purpose or justification for the extensive surveillance. Paranoia about communism, not national security, seems to be the motive behind the FBI's actions. Just last September, the FBI asked libraries to lookout for "diplomats of countries hostile to the U.S., particularly the Soviet Union." Fortunately, most librarians found the request to be a ludicrous and flagrant violation of the right to privacy and flatly refused to cooperate. As the director of the New York Library Association asked, "Does anyone with an accent...