Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Terrible Cracking." At 6 one evening last week, André Ferraud, the dam watchman, decided to open the safety sluices a little, although shortly before, a group of engineers had vetoed such a precaution for fear the overflow might damage the foundations of a new superhighway under construction from Fréjus to Cannes...
...French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss of property or for the inmate himself"), the handless clock on which a watchman hourly paints in the hands, and, above all, the jailers' constant and somehow insane concern for the prisoner's welfare-all add up to a caricature of prisons everywhere. The fussy, pedantic, sentimental jailers are so many congealed crocodile tears; what a naughty boy the prisoner really is, they appear...
Closed Season. In Dayton, police wrote a note of reminder: "Sacksteder's restaurant will, hereafter, have a man on duty all night to act as janitor and night watchman; his name is Bill Amos; please don't shoot Amos...
...after he found the body before reporting it? When the Duke of Windsor, Governor of the islands in 1943, summoned a Miami police expert, why did he mislead him into bringing the wrong equipment by describing Sir Harry's death as suicide? Who told Sir Harry's watchman he could have the night off? Who washed the bloody handprints from around the window in Sir Harry's bedroom? Why was the pistol removed from Sir Harry's bedside table? How can a certain Bahamas Negro with no visible means of support buy himself...
...were built, cellars cleaned, hydrants added, and fire walls extended. A question of how much fire insurance is feasible for a university was frequently discussed by the Corporation. At the turn of the century the best solution was to place valuable collections in fireproof buildings and to increase night watchman details...