Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infant nation of Malaysia was hoping for peace but preparing for war. Two Malayan infantry battalions packed their kit bags and prepared to embark for the steaming jungles of Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo); in Sarawak, orders were issued to raise a native infantry battalion. A round-the-clock watch was begun on the Malayan shore of the Malacca Straits, and 6,000 British, Gurkha and local troops and constabulary units doubled their patrols along Sarawak's tangled, 400-mile border with Indonesian Borneo...
...Open. Almost from the start, Dominican conservatives complained that Bosch was soft on Communism. He permitted the return of exiles, and far leftists poured in from every side. To all criticism, Bosch answered that he wanted the Reds out in the open, where he could watch them. But this only hardened the conservative anger and prompted repeated ultimatums...
...eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae." » Neville Chamberlain: "The Secre tary Bird, which you may watch at the zoo walking back and forth on stiff legs with an expression of honest purpose on its face...
...seems a bit clinical, but that's more or less what has been happening since the Great Moscow Circus arrived in Manhattan last week. Americans accustomed to the fanfaring, drum-rolling, three-ring mesmeric confusion of the P. T. Barnum tradition are asked to crowd in close and watch single acts performed in a small single ring. Whole tiers of the high seats at Madison Square Garden are deliberately left unsold. There is no parade. There are no spangled multitudes. There are no barkers, and even the soda-peanut-popcorn hawkers are forbidden to hustle during the acts. Intimacy...
...appear and answer questions, then he becomes simply a display--a dancing bear," Howe said. "It would be irresponsible for students to have him come just to watch the bear stand up and scratch himself...