Word: watchman
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...fire lookout peering from Watchman Peak saw the calm blue water, 1,850 ft. below, emit a giant belch. A cloud of smoke - or dust-filled gas - billowed out of the deep water, rose high...
...reason that police could find. Several days later the stabbed body of a mechanic was found in a weed-grown field. Then, within 150 yards of the same spot, the body of Canadian Sergeant Hugh Blackwood Price was found; he, too, had been knifed. Next, a night watchman at a Windsor garage was brutally clubbed to death with a hammer, apparently by would-be robbers...
...swank Wolhurst Saddle Club, play-spot of Colorado's mining and cattle men, was raided last week. The invaders were a squad from the War Manpower Commission, who lined up all the employes for questioning, then ordered five-a cook, a watchman, and three attendants-to report to jobs in man-hungry war factories...
Fired. In Detroit, a watchman managed to get himself discharged-after his boss refused to fire him, the War Manpower Commission to release him-by setting fire to the warehouse he watched...
...plans to flood 5,000 square miles as an invasion barrier. Actually, while flooding large parts of Holland is possible, flooding the western coastal areas would be a vast engineering job, involving destruction of the great, three-deep system of dikes and dunes known to Dutchmen as the Watchman, Sleeper and Dreamer. (In London Dutchmen were already talking of a compensating slice of northwestern Germany if war's end finds any large portion of Holland's precious topsoil ruined by German-inflicted floods...