Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with roller skates still strapped to their feet. At Belvidere, the tornado sliced through five subdivisions and a supermarket, severely damaged a hospital, nicked an auto plant, and then headed toward the local high school, where students were just finishing the day. "A girl fell and somebody said, 'Watch her get blown away,' " recalled Gordon Shook, 18. "Then everybody got blown away." All told, 20 persons were killed in Belvidere, including several students who were on school buses that were crushed by the winds...
...agape), expressing and enjoying themselves in every way -- in short, rejoicing in their humanity and in their being. Thus a Be-In can only arise spontaneously out of the spirit of the Cambridge community. It is beyond our powers to call it into being. All we can do is watch and wait, and hope that we are in town when it is. Marshall Berman 4G Barry Dym 3G James Gordon 4M Lester Hoffman 5G Jesse Kornbluth...
...with the rumble of armored convoys on the road outside. Communist slogans, painted on the classroom walls by Viet Cong by night and whitewashed away by day, are faintly visible. Bullet holes stand out more starkly. On their way to school along a pot-holed road, children step carefully, watch for Viet Cong mines. One enemy mine recently killed two South Vietnamese soldiers near the school, and both sides ambush each other along the trails in the area. Sometimes the Viet Cong block the road-and that day school starts late...
...instantaneous communication, the world is becoming smaller as jets become faster. Telstar and Early Bird make it possible for Americans and Japanese and Russians, without even leaving their homes, to watch a soccer game in London while it is being played. Moving information at the speed of light has reversed the trend toward expansion of the world, and McLuhan suggests that the world will continue to shrink until we all live in a village again, a single, global village...
...Place to Hide. The prediction may not be all that far fetched. A crowd of 41,598 turned out at Yankee Stadium last September to watch Santos of Brazil play an exhibition against Inter of Milan, and 10 million Americans tuned into the Telstar broadcast last July of England's victory over Germany for the World Cup. What's more, soccer should be a natural for TV. Baseball fields are all the wrong shape, and the action is too slow; a good pro football quarterback can hide the ball from the TV camera as well as from...