Word: watchman
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...Bengalis. On payday, when the West Paks were lording it over the Bengalis, the atmosphere was tense. According to one version, a West Pakistani fireman reproved a Bengali teastall keeper for allowing the flames to burn too high in his oven. The Bengali took offense, and when a factory watchman intervened, another Bengali stabbed the watchman...
...night I joined Shmuel Schiff as he made his watchman's rounds. We stumbled through the dark across whirls of rusty barbed wire, past shoebox houses pock-marked with bullet holes. He poked his pistol at the heavy-meshed windows, to make sure that they were strong enough to keep out hand grenades. A rifle barked in the distance. We turned about at the end of the village near an abandoned house. A widow had lived there until one morning last June, when three men poked dynamite underneath the floor and blew her to pieces. U.N. officers tracked...
Within hours, grim reports began rolling in. Israel charged Jordan with machine-gunning to death a 50-year-old watchman in Kissalon. Two days later, Jordan reported that in the dead of night Israeli troops hit Nahalin, just across the border from Kissalon, with machine guns, mines and grenades. While local national guardsmen stood off the attackers, Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb's Arab Legion raced to the rescue. Outnumbered, the Israelis fought their way three miles back to the border, carrying dead and wounded with them. Jordan's casualties: nine dead, including one woman...
There isn't much fraternization between the floors--or "entries," but because of this lack of cohesion, Claverly can achieve the "academic seclusion," Vanger describes. As for social activities, House parietal rules extend completely to Claverly, and are benevolently administered by a fire-and-theft watchman...
Piecework. In Eagle Pass, Texas, the News Guide carried a classified ad: "WANTED AT ONCE-Am desperate account of continued livestock thefts. Need watchman that can shoot. Will pay by hour or by head...