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Word: watchful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bulldog head set squarely on top of wattled neck and stooped shoulders, massive gold watch chain spread across massive middle, Sir Winston Churchill, 84, came haltingly down the ramp from Columbine III one evening last week at the Military Air Transport Service terminal in Washington. At the bottom of the steps President Eisenhower watched solicitously as he waited for his visitor. Then, with Churchill triumphant, Eisenhower stepped forward and thrust out his hand. "Hello, my friend," he said. "Glad to see you back again." Churchill, noticeably composing himself, replied: "I am indeed glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Old Friend | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...piercing glance from Spear forces him to stop in the middle of a sentence. Ted Spear looks impatiently at his watch. We were given exactly 49 minutes to become acquainted with the "largest meat business in the world...

Author: By Kent Geiger, | Title: Soviet Article "Reports" Student Exchange | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...week the railroad's coaches sported the latest evidence of its campaign: a gay new insignia to replace the drab, 100-year-old L.I. in a circle. The insignia: a red, yellow and blue emblem showing a harried commuter rushing to catch a train, eyes glued to his watch and hand gripping a briefcase and umbrella. The new insignia for "The Route of the Dashing Commuter," is designed to humanize the Long Island, point up the fact that 98% of the time it now gets passengers to their destinations on schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Passengers' Friend | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...passel of Continental newspapers persisted in spreading rumors that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev must watch his intake or be subject to a precipitate outgo from this earth. U.S. "Astrologian" Carroll Righter, syndicated globally in some 250 U.S. newspapers, promptly confirmed it all by warning that Khrushchev's stars indicate a need for great vigilance over "his stomach and digestive tract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...combination of text and pictures thoroughly intermixed; nobody's else is quite like it, and no quotations simply of words will get across its effect. Even people not in the in-group, even (God save the mark) people who approve of H-bomb tests, might buy Passionella just to watch a master satirist making up his medium as he goes along...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Passionella and Other Stories | 4/30/1959 | See Source »

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