Word: watch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seafaring instincts made an instant impression. "Joe had what we old-timers refer to as a seaman's eye," recalls Steve Brelsford, a retired Exxon captain and Hazelwood's first boss. "He had that sixth sense about seafaring that enables you to smell a storm on the horizon or watch the barometer and figure how to outmaneuver it." Because of such gifts, Hazelwood rose swiftly through the ranks. Only ten years after graduating, he became a captain, in charge of the Exxon Philadelphia, a California-to-Alaska oil tanker. At 32 he was the youngest skipper in Exxon's fleet...
...turnover of Exxon crews, Kagan, the helmsman on duty at the time of the accident, had been promoted to able seaman just one year earlier from his job as room steward and food server in the ship's galley. Kagan "does the best he can, but you have to watch him," a deck officer later told Government investigators. Knowing this, LeCain had planned to replace Kagan with another helmsman once he reported for duty...
...parents went out that weekend in 1969 and bought a television set so they could watch it. Like the rest of the nation, they were enthralled and enraptured by the prospect of a human being setting foot on the surface of another world...
...only four months old at the time, but I'm told that I watched the event as well, comfortably ensconced in the laps of one or the other of the friends and relatives who came over to watch, blissfully unaware of what was taking place...
...moderate voters whose support they need. They cannot abandon the human-life amendment without hell to pay. Now that it matters, they cannot continue to trumpet this extreme position without at least heck to pay. It will be an albatross around their necks. Already it is a pleasure to watch Rudolph Giuliani, a Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, squirm...