Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find them," quoth Sandburg. "Anyway, they hurt." But the missing teeth soon turned up in his lady's handbag, and Sandburg talked freely. At fourscore and five years, says he, "I don't go around telling people how to live long. My advice reduces itself to this: watch out about stumbling into a coal hole, and-it's always safer to walk upstairs than down...
...before dawn on Pentecost, the great Christian feast that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus' Apostles. In the cool June night, 5,000 people stood watch in the moonlit piazza of St. Peter's. Some prayed; some chatted; some-Rome being what it is-eyed their neighbors for the bulge of a wallet, the unguarded clasp of a handbag. Most of those at the vigil looked often to the lighted windows on the top floor of the Vatican Palace. There the life of Pope John XXIII was slowly, inevitably, ebbing away...
...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
Named Project Moon-Watch, the system consists of stations around the world which track satellites with optical cameras. Whipple first set up the system as chairman of the rocketry committee of the U.S. National Commission for the International Geophysical Year. It was ready to follow the first Soviet sputnik in October...
...cadet at Harvard, for example, is blurred by irrelevant snide comments: "The typical ROTC man is a Catholic from Malden or Dedham or Weston or Winchester, a Dunster or Winthrop House member. . . . Practical minded, he thinks less about his life at Harvard than about a career. He wears a watch...