Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-suited Ashurst and just beyond, Oklahoma's blind Gore, his head attentively lifted. In his frontrow aisle seat slouched Senate Leader Robinson, disgusted beyond words at the "Kingfish's" performance. Around the walls of the chamber stood Representatives who had come over from the House to watch...
...Queen of the Belgians lay in state in the black-draped "Tinkers Hall" of Laeken Palace last week with four generals as a guard of honor during the day, black-robed nuns to watch over her at night. Only her face was visible above the violet-strewn counterpane...
...Italy it was made to cover no less and no more than the Ethiopian area which by the Treaty of 1906 was declared a "sphere of Italian influence." This area is being visualized by thinking of Ethiopia, which is roughly round in shape, as the face of a watch. Then all of Ethiopia covered by a minute hand as it sweeps around from 12 to 8 is covered by the Rickett Concession. Not in this area is Lake Tana, vital water source of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On the imaginary watch, Tana is at the tip of the hour hand...
...shooters at Vandalia knew who he was until, firing from 20 yd., he broke 98 targets out of the first 100 to tie Sam G. Vance of Tillsonburg, Ont. The rest of the field and 1,000 or so spectators gathered behind the backs of the two men to watch the shoot-off. After the first 25 targets, they were still tied. Then, after 25 more, Vance had missed four birds to Royall's three and his defeated rivals were pumping the conductor's steady hand...
...Long Valley, N. J., arrested for peeking at nudists sunning themselves in a camp next to his farm, William Searles invited 150 neighbors to watch the nudists from his property, complained: "Why, there was only two good looking girls in the lot and they would have looked a lot better if they had had their dresses on. One woman weighed 300 lb. anyway. . . . There's nothing pretty about a naked woman...