Word: watchfullness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relaxed from a tranquilizer, the 65-year-old woman, an abdominal cancer victim, lay quietly on an operating table in the University of Mississippi's Medical Center. Anesthesiologist Leonard Fabian opened her mouth, sprayed a local anesthetic on her throat, inserted an "airway tube" to ensure unobstructed breathing. Under...
He is a bear for facts and figures, probes relentlessly for details of minor operations and files them away in his Univac memory. He works, as one sad assistant puts it, "as though there were no holidays, Saturdays and Sundays, and expects others to do the same." One staff officer...
Outlining the special dangers of the present arms race, Beer spoke of "the need of either power to be able to strike instantly with full force." Thus, measures intended for defense can easily appear as preparations for aggression, and so drive a watchful enemy to strike first.
Where it can, Mexico also gives Castro's Cubans as little rope as possible. The Mexican government keeps a watchful eye on Castro's diplomats, grants very few visas to Cubans, either pro-or anti-Castro. Pemex, the state oil monopoly, turned down a Cuban request for technicians...
Visibly touched, the President told of his gratitude for the support of the Western nations, of the NATO Council, of his own friends at home, but warned the U.S. to "be watchful for more irritations.'' For example, said the President, just 30 minutes before landing, he had got...