Word: watchful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...haven in an ugly war. White sand beaches stretch far at Cam Ranh. Off-duty Americans surf on the gentle swells and snorkle into secluded coves to watch brilliantly colored fish and huge lobsters. There are lighted tennis courts, and at the nurses' Saturday-night dances, the boogaloo and the popcorn are popular. As President Nixon began to disengage U.S. troops from Viet Nam, Cam Ranh acquired new importance as a possible exit or rear-guard enclave for departing American forces...
...anniversary of Bonaparte's birth, gripped by an unprecedented outbreak of Napoleonomania. Traveling by ship and plane to Napoleon's Corsican hometown of Ajaccio (pop. 50,000), more than 200,000 tourists will enjoy fireworks and street dancing, hear President Georges Pompidou deliver the bicentennial address and watch 3,500 French légionnaires, dressed as the Emperor's grognards (grumpy veterans), parade through the spruced-up city...
...staple of movie house matinees during the fifties, and still shows up with welcome regularity on all those Million Dollars Movies. Nevertheless, the book is unbelievably suspenseful. Crichton is a master at keeping the reader one step ahead of his brilliant-but-sometimes-obtuse scientists. It is painful to watch their ignorance lag behind your own understanding; reading this book becomes one of the most cogent arguments for taking an Evelyn Wood course I've ever come across...
...shock, and has water in his lungs and a slight concussion. Do you call a doctor? Don't be ridiculous. The proper thing is to take your friend to the nearest ferry and, when the ferry is shut down for the night, just calmly stand there and watch him swim across the channel, preferably fully clothed. Now he'll be able to recuperate all by himself in a nice comfortable motel room...
...that nobody likes -except the viewers. Newspaper critics reacted as if it were good reason to pull the plug on rural electrification. CBS, with unaccustomed humor, is running promotion spots replaying the show's most outrageous vignettes, with a kicker: "The critics are unanimous about Hee Haw-but watch anyway...