Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours after the proclamation, but the customary nighttime silence of Salisbury's downtown streets was broken only by occasional drunken cries ("Rhodesia, Rhodesia") and a few blasts of car horns. Most white Rhodesians performed their usual tasks, went home to their usual dinners and sat down to watch their usual TV programs. In the teeming African townships of Highfield and Harare, police doubled their nightly patrols, but all was quiet. The African beer halls, normally raucous with life, were gloomy and deserted...
...pension by dividing her purchases among several shops. She knit him special slippers with felt soles, so that the neighbors would not hear him. In his garret Vasseur learned seven languages to add to his French and German; she learned Latin to help him along, brought him down to watch TV on quiet nights. In 1962, police discovered him accidentally. Paying a routine call on Mme. Vasseur, they rang the neighbor's doorbell downstairs by mistake, then knocked on Mme. Vasseur's door-and found her son hiding behind a curtain. He could, of course, have easily escaped...
...would have no pay in money for hurling my body into space. There would be no crowd to watch and applaud my landing (there was later). Nor was there any scientific objective to be gained. No, there was a deeper reason for wanting to jump, a desire I could not explain. It was a love of the air and sky, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme...
Indoor & Outdoor Sports. But Operation Match also produced more than its share of fun dates. At Harvard, a varsity swimmer and amateur astronomer was desperately looking for someone who 1) would time his laps in the pool, 2) be willing to wake up at 3 a.m. to watch comets with him. The computer digested his questionnaire, squeezed out just the right ticket-a lithe, auburn-haired Radcliffe girl who was "fed up with Harvard pseudo intellectuals," wanted someone who "enjoyed sports, both indoor and outdoor." They are now going steady...
...what Walt Disney intended to do with Mary Poppins from the time of their first meeting in New York during World War II. After some time of discussing and being unable to persuade her to come to Hollywood, Disney finally reached into his coat pocket "and pulled out a watch. It was very old and had a cracked face. He looked at it, pondered a bit, counting up the figures. Finally he said: 'Twenty minutes past five...that means five to seven. I must be off.' Well, I can tell you that that watch almost...