Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storehouse, the Implacable and her onetime adversary the Victory were the only veterans of Trafalgar still afloat. The Victory was preserved as a monument. The Implacable was left to lie among condemned men-of-war at Portsmouth Harbor's head, her rotting hulk manned only by an aged watchman...
Oblivious of this fact, Radcliffe girls got out their Angora mittens, motorists got out the chains and the anti-freeze, and Terence O'Reilly '19, night watchman of the Public Waterworks of Weston, prepared himself with...
Daniel G. Mulvihill, 66, president of the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, will resign his post as watchman and proctor at the Law School to guide the Association on a salaried basis...
After finding no one in the store, the patrolmen discovered that the watchman had forgotten to turn off the alarm while making his rounds...
...Panama's vocabulary contains only a part of the Americanisms that have invaded the everyday Spanish of the Isthmus, mainly by infiltration from the English-speaking Canal Zone. Other beachheads, on subjects ranging from elegant eating (at a dinerdans) to economic blockade (boicot), include chingongo (chewing gum), guachiman (watchman), daim (dime), bichicomer, the verbs blofear (to bluff) and quidnapear, the meaningful noun...