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Word: watchfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hong Kong, the ancient Chinese custom of concubinage agitated the island colony's women. In the past, a concubine would move right into her keeper's house after acceptance by his first wife, who was then able to keep tab on the doxy and watch out for her husband's interests. A concubine's children would address the No. i wife as "Mother," their own mother as "Elder Sister." Today an estimated one-third of Hong Kong's men have a tsip, or second wife, recruited from dance halls, but keep her on a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Far East: The Crooked Thing | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

York City Ballet dancers are so superbly trained that it's a pleasure to watch, whereas often abstract dancers are simply concealing their lack of talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shock Waves in Moscow | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...poisons. We have to be careful with radiation. It's not really very different," said one. Technicians at the accelerator need not wear dosage clips, but no job is without its peculiarities. At the C.E.A., nobody wears a wristwatch-the powerful magnets in the ring will quickly ruin a watch...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: New Accelerator Probes Structure of Proton | 10/13/1962 | See Source »

...into advanced culture, like the flashlights of burglars in the Metropolitan Museum. Prodded by Minow, the industry has raised its public affairs programming to an admirable level, as was evident last week from Oxford, Miss., to Cape Canaveral. But people who really care about TV-the ones who habitually watch it-are devoted to the weekly programs that contain the real stuff of television: all the heroes, heavies and broad comedians in the great video frieze that might be called the Elgin plasters. TV fills too much time to be extraordinarily worthwhile in any but a small part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Dickens-He's Fenster, a tale of two buddies (played by John Astin and Marty Ingels) who are construction carpenters with sawed-off brains. Both are bucking for foreman, but in the main they are slapsticking away with casual finesse. Dickens cocks his wrist to look at his watch and pours coffee into his lap. The laughter isn't canned. Mrs. Dickens is a knockout. No one misses Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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