Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uruba Palace, Nasser's 40-room state guest house, where machine-gun-carrying Egyptian commandos were posted with orders to let no one in or out. "This is the dirtiest trick in history," howled Tshombe. "It's unprecedented to imprison a visiting head of government." Forced to watch the conference on television, he refused to eat for fear of being poisoned, drank Katanga beer he had brought with him, and kept his four secretaries up all night typing protests to all 46 nations at the meeting...
...very first Columbia play, Frank Ulcickas spilled Roberts' receiver, Bob Klingensmith, for a 12-yard loss after Archie was hit trying to pass. Then Ulcickas dumped Roberts for a six-yard loss and the pro scout who had come to watch Archie wrote down Ulcickas' name...
Managers of each building received cards bearing a Secret Service phone number, were ordered to call immediately if they spotted any weapons or heard suspicious conversations. Two hundred El Paso firemen were assigned to traffic control, thus freeing city cops to watch the crowd and buildings. Armed Texas Border Patrolmen were stationed on roofs along the route. They carried walkie-talkies and could flash instant reports on any suspicious activities to the Secret Service. Whenever Johnson plunged into the mass of curbside spectators, he was surrounded by circles of Secret Service men, FBI agents and city detectives...
...Premier Ismet Inonu. Moscow was well aware of the large peril to peace that would be created by an attempt at destruction of NATO's power balance in that crucial region of the Mediterranean. Neither Turkey nor Greece nor NATO nor the U.S. would sit quietly by to watch a new Cuba being constructed in the lake between Europe and Africa...
Food is everybody's business - but the business of providing it is faring badly in most of the world. So reports the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, which keeps a close watch on the world's food supply. While the world population increased another 2% last year - to 3.218 billion - farm production continued to follow a laggardly trend, rising barely 1%. Chief reasons for the poor performance: bad weather and primitive, inefficient farming methods. Harvests were poor in the developing nations that most need good crops if they are to have any hope of improving their economies...