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Word: watchfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare parts, including a complete, ready-to-install jet engine. The two cargo planes are assigned a leapfrogging schedule that will keep one of them always one stop ahead of the President. Eight specially trained Air Force police will guard all the planes on the ground. To keep watch as Ike flies over the sea is a string of preassigned Navy vessels patrolling the Atlantic at 500-mile intervals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING WHITE HOUSE: Flying White House | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...class, was transferred from a harbor-bound oiler to a rolling, seagoing Navy destroyer, and ex-Farm Boy (Mulberry, Fla.) Buie was one seasick bluejacket. One night last week, when his ship, U.S.S. Arnold J. Isbell, was rocking along 60 miles southwest of San Diego, Buie went topside to watch a movie. He was still pretty green around the gills, so he wobbled aft to smoke a cigarette. On the port quarter, he leaned over the side. As he leaned, the ship rolled-and over, into the sea, rolled William Buie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Luckiest Afloat | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Thrashing in the water, Buie was too shocked with the cold to shout to the stern watch, tried swimming after his ship, then gave up. Nobody knew he was gone. Remembering his survival training, he quickly kicked off his shoes, stripped off his blue denim dungarees and knotted the pants legs. By popping the pants sharply onto the water, waistband first, he trapped an air bubble in each leg-and there, with his improvised float, he bobbed in the black sea. Isbell's lights faded in the distance ("I guess that was about the alonest I ever felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Luckiest Afloat | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...splintered to a teeth-chattering accompaniment, and Buie began to lose hope. He dozed a while. Then, two hours after he went overboard, he saw lights. It was the escort vessel Leslie L. B. Knox, sailing a random course between exercises. Buie yelled. A sharp-eared sailor on watch heard him, sounded the emergency rescue alarm. Searchlights blazed. Knox's helm swung hard over to circle, and Rescue Swimmer Harold Martin, 19, dived over the side, swam 30 yds. to Buie and hauled him aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Luckiest Afloat | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys who say, 'Oh, you're a big football player. Well, I don't think you're so tough.' You feel like poppin' them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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