Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason: three hours before, when Moss pulled into the pits for brake re pairs, an unthinking mechanic had also filled his gas tank. Bitterly angry at the judges' decision, Moss did not stay around to watch another Ferrari driven by Jo Bonnier and Lucien Bianchi win the race...
Moving Core. After keeping a radio watch on Jupiter for months. Morris and Berge calculated that its Van Allen belt is a doughnut 300,000 miles in diameter and 80,000 miles thick. It is several times as radioactive as the earth's and is held in place over the planet's magnetic equator by a magnetic field that must be several times stronger than the earth's. Since the earth's magnetic field is believed to be formed by the motion of its metallic core, and since Jupiter proved to be surrounded by magnetism...
Then Saskia died, and that same year Rembrandt suffered a professional calamity. He painted on commission The Shooting Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (better known as The Night Watch), in which he infuriated many of the patrons by hiding them in his brilliant interplay of shadows. After that, Rembrandt was to know bankruptcy and the death of one loved one after another, including his only son. The years of tragedy were upon...
...little stick suddenly blossomed. Gymnastics classes were held in the Roman amphitheater, and the men of Pozzuoli began to show up to watch Sophia doing calisthenics. "It became a pleasure just to stroll down the street," Sophia remembers. Mamma had thought that Sophia should try to become a teacher, but she took another look and put her in a beauty contest. She won a secondary prize that included 15.000 lire and some wallpaper, which still decorates Grandfather Villani's living room in Pozzuoli. In the spring of 1950, mother and daughter went off to Rome to seek work...
...saved his son from a serious illness, Billington, then an Akron rubber worker, promised to preach. True to his word, he began "Bible searching'' after work, found a job as an usher-bouncer in a revival temple. By 1932 he was broadcasting sermons over "Radio Station WJW-Watch Jesus Win." Two years later he was ordained...