Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them and were looking for more when ground fire caught Kasler's wingman, and he ejected. Kasler circled the area to protect him until rescue helicopters could get in. When Kasler's fuel gauge hit "bingo" (minimum remaining to get home), instead of leaving the protective watch to others, he elected to refuel from an orbiting KC-135 tanker and return to his downed buddy...
...last week. The Marines, helpless and unreachable by their own medical corpsmen, were mercilessly slaughtered by North Vietnamese regulars. "During the night, the North Viets came," said one survivor of the massacre, a radio operator whose abdomen had been ripped by shell fragments. "They took my cigarettes and my watch, but they didn't shoot me. They must have looked at my spilled guts and figured I was dead. I was lucky...
Nobody knows for sure how many fans watch soccer each year, although estimates run to 500 million. Queen Elizabeth and 97,000 of her more delirious subjects crammed into Wembley Stadium to watch the climactic contest of a 71 -nation competition that started two years ago. England was the odds-on (at 1-2) favorite on the strength of a tenacious defense, led by Captain Bobby Moore, that had allowed just one goal (on a penalty shot) during the entire World Cup playoff - plus a swarming, aggressive offense sparked by Bobby Charlton, who scored both goals when England beat Portugal...
Only three months ago, Ludwig Erhard was firmly maintaining that if Charles de Gaulle insisted on pulling his troops out of the unified NATO command, he could hardly keep 72,000 of them on German soil, no matter how much he wanted to keep a watch on the Rhine. "There can be no throwback to an occupation status," Erhard declared. Then, as De Gaulle's July 1 deadline for France's NATO withdrawal began to creep nearer, Erhard allowed technical experts in Paris to negotiate a "temporary" agreement under which the French troops might stay in Germany...
...every kid in the U.S. knows, Jesse James met an untimely end with a bullet in the back fired by "that dirty little coward," Bob Ford. In Thailand, though, the story goes a bit differently. Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn used to watch a Thai translation of TV's Legend of Jesse James every Saturday night, along with 100,000 other fans. Then it got to bothering him to see a bad guy like Jesse ride off into the sunset unpunished at the end of each episode. "The series might mislead Thai youth into thinking wrong is right," the Prime...