Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue is even more complex for the union, which sees its base steadily eroding. Neither watchman nor security guards are members of the union. At the same time, the union demand for more equitable promotions within the department has backfired, weakening its position still further. Before the last contract negotiations, the police charged that the few times Gorski promoted officers he chose them arbitrarily. The union contended that the lack of equity, internal communication and job security had severely damaged police morale, and demanded that the University correct the situation before it renegotiated a contract...
...Freeze, man!" Night Watchman Charles Taylor, who had been patrolling the second floor of the First National Bank in Palm Beach, Fla., quickly obeyed the shouted order, as well as instructions to hand over his keys and stand in a side room while the black-shirted, black-gloved intruder escaped. When polive arrived on that night in late April, they found no sign that anything was missing from the room - a locked storage area in which socialites stash their artworks, silver and other valuables while they are away from home...
...that most of the country has settled into an apathetic limbo. After 1968, the new regime purged 326,817 members, from the Czechoslovak Communist Party; today, having re-expanded, it claims 1.9 million members, vs. 1.7 million in 1968. Former First Secretary Dubček, now 56, is a watchman in a Bratislava public garden, under constant surveillance. Former Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek is now a pensioner in Prague and a persistent critic of the Husák regime. Former Premier Oldřich Černik holds an obscure research job outside the capital...
...explosion sounded like a belated, booming finale to the fireworks display at the Palace of Versailles. Thus, when an agitated watchman telephoned the local police station one night last week, the flics at first assumed that his report of a bomb blast was just another complaint by an angry Versailles resident about the racket over at the chateau. Earlier that evening, 50,000 people had trekked out to the magnificent 17th century palace-home of France's royal court until the revolution of 1789-for a fireworks festival celebrating the arrival of summer. While Roman candles and rockets cannonaded...
...swing watchman"--alternating between Houses--is also to his liking. A hearty laugh overpowers the WEEL "easy listening" wafting from a radio behind him: "You screw up one week and by the time you get back there they've forgotten all about...