Word: watcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey Atlantic swells off the rugged Donegal coast bobbed a strange, black, knobby object. The young fishermen of Ballymanus village strolled down to the sea, stared and wondered. At length came the official coast watcher. It was a mine, he warned: let no one touch...
...January 1846 universal peace seemed assured at last: Biela's comet was about to wipe out the world. But, as comet and Earth rushed toward the fatal conjunction, a watcher in the U.S. Naval Observatory saw the "ominous and inconceivable" happen-Biela's comet split in two. This lucky break permitted history to crowd into the balance of that amazing year a series .of events (of which the Mexican War and the westward migration are best known) that cause Historian Bernard DeVoto to believe that 1846 was the great divide in U.S. history. He has written this book...
...Republican in Philadelphia, a Democrat in Baltimore, because "I always join the worst party to work from within to clean it up." In the 1895 election, when roughs were intimidating citizens waiting to vote by poking them with shoemakers' awls, small, stocky Dr. Kelly volunteered as a poll watcher, punched a plug-ugly in the nose...
Into this tumult barged snappy, tennis-playing Stockholder Norman Charles Norman, a jeweler by trade, a management-watcher by choice. He shouted that all Bond & Share employes should be tossed out; "This is a stockholders' meeting." Another shareholder, threatened to call the police unless everyone was quiet. Finally President Murphy managed to read a 26-page report. It was bad news: profits in the year ended September plopped to a 20-year low; heavy taxes and Government competition were big worries; the Death Sentence Act "is such that perhaps we cannot stay in business...
...from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal janizariat in many a quiet operation during the 1940 campaign. Niles's presence close to the President has a plain meaning: Mr. Roosevelt needs an able watcher -to keep a finger on all important political developments, large & small...