Word: watching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They sang with untrained voices, and as if they loved the music. An eleven-year-old named Sally Sheppard sang a solo in a sweet alto, ". . . in a stable, 'mid lowing of kine, Mary kept watch o'er the infant divine . . ." As she sang, cattle could be heard lowing in a red barn just behind the church. Some of the audience sat with clenched hands; a few farmers' wives dabbed at their eyes when Jane Carpenter, 16, and Leanna Livingston, 17, sang a duet: "Come, thou long-expected Jesus...
...Brainerd, Minn. jury awarded one Mrs. Lola Ramona Dockter a $5,000 judgment after she complained that her privacy was violated while she was giving birth to a baby. The basis of her suit: her doctor allowed a college instructor to watch the delivery...
Salvador Dali, supersalesman of limp-watch surrealism, honored Madrid with a visit and modern art with an offer of leadership: "My name is Salvador because I am destined to save modern painting from laziness and chaos . . . The world is going through the middle ages, but a renaissance will follow." He would soon be ready to lead that renaissance: "The world's greatest painters were Velasquez and Raphael -every day I feel I am getting closer to them." There was no challenger. Picasso? "Picasso's works are pseudo-decorative and they all look like rugs...
...Fare. In Hoboken, N.J., Dorothy Cantor and David Drysdale succeeded in stealing a watch, failed in their quick getaway by hailing a police car they mistook for a taxi...
...will do the worrying for him. He merely selects (by setting a dial) the course he wants to follow within the territory of a certain omnirange. The gadgets do the rest, measuring continuously both distance and direction and digesting the information electronically. All the pilot has to do is watch the magic needle. As long as it is vertical, he is on his preset course. He can fly where he chooses, selecting the most direct route and avoiding traffic by never coming close to an airport until he nears his final destination...