Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inexperienced newcomers wasted long hours arguing about whether they or the Republicans had got stuck with the sunniest seats in the legislative chambers, once flew off to the Big Island to watch an eruption along the slopes of Mauna Loa. While the Democrats fiddled, crusty, Eisenhower-appointed Territorial Governor Sam Wilder King sat back and waited for them to run out of time. On the 50th day of the prescribed, 60-day 1955 session, Sam King vetoed the only two Democratic bills. This so disorganized the bewildered Democrats that they squabbled along to the end of the session...
...Saturday 100,000 Viennese (who had otherwise treated the affair with distaste or indifference) turned out to watch the festival's big parade. They found nothing to cheer about until, near the end of the monotonous succession of national delegations, the ragged-rank bunch of 100 U.S. fellow travelers passed by-followed closely by six non-Communist Americans who, as they entered Heroes Square, broke out signs reading "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet" and "We're Against Soviet Colonialism." The crowd gave the half dozen a tremendous ovation before Austrian and Italian Communists swarmed in and knocked them...
...talent naturally: his mother was a professional diver for shellfish. Yamanaka, raised in Amamachi, on the Sea of Japan, was a swimmer at four. But as a boy, Yamanaka shuddered at the thought of racing: "It seemed too tiring at the time." Then one day he tagged along to watch his high school team in a national meet, sat fuming as the contestants splashed haplessly up and down the pool. Finally, Yamanaka stalked down out of the stands, entered the 100 meters-and won. "After watching the slow swimming," says he, "I felt I just had to get in there...
...ready. In a campaign that rivals the efforts to protect North America's whooping crane, Waterston and his aides strung barbed wire around the base of the tree, planted the vicinity with booby traps, built an observation post with a covered approach. Relays of guards kept 24-hour watch, helped at night by a parabolic microphone so sensitive that they could hear the female panting on the nest-or any sly oölogist footsteps...
...miles to the southeast. At a rocket test site, an engineer could barely wait for the blast of an Atlas engine to subside before asking: "What's the inning and the score?" And at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, some 200 men crowded around a television set to watch the Dodgers win. Sighed one office truant: "Well, this knocks hell out of an afternoon of banking-but it's worth...