Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have analyzed past election returns in sufficient detail to assign every county in the U.S. (total: 3,131) a quota of Goldwater votes to deliver. Their three-phase plan for precinct-level activity: 1) canvass every household for Goldwater votes, 2) help those voters get to the polls, 3) watch the polling places so as to be sure that the votes are tallied accurately...
Last spring the rest of the U.S. settled back to watch the South suffer: if the civil rights bill failed to pass in Congress, people reasoned, frustrated Negroes certainly would step up their revolution; if it did pass, Southern whites certainly would resist every effort to test the new law. Either way, violence would spread. Yet, as it turned out at summer's end, it was the North that had been racked by riots. And - with the ignoble exceptions of Alabama and Mississippi - the South's racial summer added up to a surprising plus. Items...
...Gauge to Watch. Though rising wages and prices are two obvious heralds of inflation, economists also keep a close watch on plant capacity-the extent to which industry uses its facilities to turn out the goods it needs to meet demand. Reason: any strong and widespread increase in the use of capacity indicates that demand is pressing existing facilities, thus increasing pressures for price hikes. Rising demand has gradually alleviated the painful hangover of idle facilities that followed the plant-building binge of the mid-'50s, but U.S. industry in general is still not being strained to its limits...
Lies for Happiness. The trouble is that the Italians themselves are captivated by these qualities, Barzini suggests. "Watch an Italian mother fondle her baby. If she is alone, she is tender and solicitous like any other mother, in a matter-of-fact way. As soon as somebody enters the room, she will immediately act a tasteful impersonation of Mother Love. Her face will suddenly shine, tears of affection will fill her eyes, she will crush the infant to her breast, sing to him . . ." But even at its most innocent, the trait lends "a theatrical quality which enhances but slightly distorts...
...always just out of reach of the Divine Child's foot." O'Faolain's father was "absolutely loyal to the Empire, as only a born hero-worshiper can be," and after Sunday services Sean would accompany him to the British army barracks on Wellington Road to watch the regiment parade and "when the drums rolled and the brass shook the air, I could hear the saber clash, the hoofbeats, the rifle fire of The Dash for Khartoum, With Kitchener in the Soudan. My father would nod at us sagely and proudly. We belonged...