Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hamburg offices last October. The stated reason: "Suspicion of treason," for allegedly using classified government information in a story blasting the performance of the West German army. After sifting literally millions of papers in the defendants' homes and Der Spiegel's offices, the police glumly stood watch as the remaining editors published successive weekly editions, each of them acidly critical of the whole affair...
...deadening aspects of life in Riyadh (pop. 250,000) is sheer boredom. The city boasts not a single place of entertainment; since Moslems generally do not drink, there are no bars or nightclubs. The only excitement occurs on Friday afternoons when crowds gather in the public squares to watch the flogging of convicted thieves. If the thief is a third-time offender, his right hand is amputated at the wrist...
...frustration. But a good offensive tackle knows a dozen devastating ways to accomplish just one mission-block. He even went to college to learn that. In pro football, nothing is left to chance: a single play may have 100 variations, each fashioned as meticulously as a fine Swiss watch. Nothing is what it seems: the quarterback fades back, cocks his arm, looks downfield-but what's this?-the fullback is already in the secondary, with the ball tucked neatly under his arm. And when the quarterback does have the ball, there he stands, cool and detached, facing the onrushing...
...lingo over slotbacks, stunters and buttonhooks. Even the innocent are mesmerized. Action piles upon action, thrill upon guaranteed thrill, and all with such bewildering speed that at the end the fans are literally limp. At New York's Yankee Stadium, where 63,000 hardy souls braved sleet to watch the Giants edge Cleveland 17-13, a man turned fondly to his wildly cheering wife. "Honey," he said gently, "do you understand anything about this game?" "Not a thing," she smiled, "except that I like...
...ranges widely and perceptively over ideas and legend. It may light on the aging Admiral Christopher Columbus, appearing on deck in the darkest watch of night "hollow-eyed and crumpled, like a dry, wind-driven, scurrying leaf." Or on Diogenes: "His castle was an upended winevat by the gates of Corinth. Alexander the Great called on him there. All radiant, the Conqueror leaned down across the neck of his white charger, doffed his golden helmet and inquired what he might do for Diogenes. 'Move on,' Apollo's man suggested. 'You're in my light...