Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace pact. Said Historian Clinton Rossiter: "If the ship goes down, I'll go with it, as long as it represents reason and order. But if it's converted to threats and fear, I'll leave it and take a job as a night watchman in a bakery...
Radcliffe will increase its night watchman force and reactivate a police alarm system as part of an effort to tighten security in the dormitories, J. Boyd Britton, administrative vice president of Radcliffe said yesterday...
Radcliffe night watchmen cost between $20 and $25 per eight-hour shift. Girls are in dormitories approximately 35 weeks of the year, which would mean between $5000 and $6000 per year per watchman. Harvard University Police Chief Tonis has said that the only way to have more police at Radcliffe would be to add new men to the existing 63-man force. Police salaries, including fringe benefits, are about $10,000 per year...
...course of events or participate in them. Siggy's anger at the present, and his awareness that it is haunted by the past, are reinforced in other sections of his notebooks, called "the Zoo Watch." These tell of nights spent at the zoo, where he catches the night watchman-an ex-Nazi who once tortured Jews-tormenting the animals now in his charge...
Such is the credo of the traditional, the watchman force, now disappearing due to what is loosely called professionalism--a term which Wilson uses sparingly...