Word: watchman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived in the Lianjiao plant. Their bodies were discovered later that morning, along with those of two Chinese security guards and a 17-year-old female employee. According to news reports, all had their throats slit. A watchman at a nearby plant recalls that the usually attentive guard dogs on the premises had not made a sound...
...When we got to Kuwait City, we figured that the place to go was the Emir's palace. The Kuwaiti resistance hadn't shown up. A watchman there said don't go in, it might be booby-trapped. But we went in slowly, carefully, looking for trip wires or other signs of booby traps. There weren't any. Eventually, we got to the Emir's bedroom. It was covered by about three feet of emptied jewelry boxes. Everything had been taken - the refrigerated cabinets to hold the furs were empty. The only thing the Iraqis didn't take were...
Philbrick avoids moralizing, but his story has a Melvillean coda. Nantucket's pious Quakers never discussed their kinfolks' cannibalism publicly. Pollard wrecked his second ship and wound up a night watchman. With increasing competition and the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, Nantucket's whaling industry went into a tailspin, and the heirs to old families like the Macys, Coffins and Folgers went off-island to seek their fortunes. Score one for the whales...
...German secret police, also in shambles. The projections this time are not one, but four, using all the walls in the room and converging in two corners. Watching multiple films at once further suggests surveillance monitors, and the images flick from one pan to the next like a perfunctory watchman...
...candy that means what it says on its package; it offers every flavor, ranging from chocolate and peppermint to liver and tripe and earwax. But Rowling also names the Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch, evidently hoping that a few adult readers will remember that Argus, in Greek mythology, was a watchman with eyes all over his body. And even if no one else picks up the reference, it's the sort of touch that can prompt an author's inward smile...