Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scanning the Seaboard. Radar surveillance planes, which had lumbered aloft earlier, stayed up during the presidential flight to scan the area for strange aircraft. Submarines and destroyers at sea were ordered to keep a close watch on their radar screens. Air Force and Navy all-weather planes patrolled every possible air corridor from Cuba to Florida and up the East Coast. Army antiaircraft installations were at the ready. Along the whole Eastern seaboard, dozens of fighter pilots sat on alert in their cockpits...
...Africa, he explained, "we are able to watch universities as they evolve to become viable in a strange and stormy intellectual climate...
Exasperated beyond endurance, New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton finally let fly at the fact that his fellow civil rights proponents were "contribut ing innocently or inadvertently to the so-called filibuster." He said he had been holding a watch as Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson, who makes no bones about being one of the filibusterers, spoke directly on the topic of civil rights. Said Cotton: "I discovered that when the Senator from Virginia was credited with having occupied the time from approximately 10:30 until approximately 1:30, nearly one of those three hours was taken up by other Senators...
...woodlands, the Rolls-Royce ticks in the drive, his horses neigh in the night, and his mastiff Candida barks. Inside, Dirk Bogarde communes with the telly. "After a hard day's work," he says, "I just want to slouch in front of a television set and watch other people make fools of themselves...
...always been recognized in the private pre-Ovidian Cheever. "He is a magician," says his friend Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, recalling the old women who lurked in the back parlors of the Negro section of Oklahoma City where he grew up. "He can take a watch chain or something and tell you the whole man." Even Mary Cheever subscribes to the theory that her husband is not as other men. She recounts with some awe the story of how John, having completed a deeply painful story about his older brother Fred, became convinced that something was amiss with...