Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans to flood 5,000 square miles as an invasion barrier. Actually, while flooding large parts of Holland is possible, flooding the western coastal areas would be a vast engineering job, involving destruction of the great, three-deep system of dikes and dunes known to Dutchmen as the Watchman, Sleeper and Dreamer. (In London Dutchmen were already talking of a compensating slice of northwestern Germany if war's end finds any large portion of Holland's precious topsoil ruined by German-inflicted floods...
...third shot carried away a privy on the end of the pier, containing, I think, the night watchman. We hit the target about 25 times. We kept it up about a quarter-hour before the sleepy Italians realized somebody was shooting at them. They didn't do very much except fire some star shells seven miles out to sea. As we slid out they got a light on us. A couple of shells fell close. Next day they claimed to have sunk...
...most elegant voice on the U.S. air belongs to a slight, Vandyke-bearded, richly-turned-out gentleman who made a happy career out of avoiding hard work until World War II caught up with him. The voice is that of John W. (for Womack) Vandercook, 41, onetime night watchman for a rummage sale, at present one of radio's better news commentators...
...Night Watchman F. L. Bellew flattened himself on the sidewalk beside the post office, watched the sky narrowly, longed for his high-powered rifle...
Speakers roundly walloped radio chains which give free time to the "vociferous liberals" of the Federal Council of Churches but, said the speakers, deny it to conservatives. The Baptist Watchman-Examiner's editor, Dr. John W. Bradbury, attacked "the American Embassy to the Vatican," called for united action "to demand of our Government that it cease this invasion of Constitutional provision . . . close the Vatican Embassy . . . cancel the appointment of even so much as a personal ambassador of the President to the Pope...