Word: watchmen
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Several students have suggested that the number of watchmen be increased, either by hiring students or more professionals...
...sociology at Manhattan College and used to sell insurance. But there was nothing disheveled about Grady's anti-Government operations. He watched a Government office or building for months before he sent his crew into action. He charted the flow of traffic and the movements of guards or watchmen around his target. He has used as many as 50 antiwar activists on a single job. He schooled them in techniques of lock picking and window smashing. Only when he was convinced by his notes, charts and diagrams that nothing had been left to chance did Grady give the word...
...night watchmen in Quincy spends a good part of his time trying to force outside a German Shepherd stray which has recently made Quincy his home. The dog, named Woof by a few students, is well trained and extremely friendly, and now he's afraid to leave the courtyard. Any move by the superintendent or his staff to get rid of Woof is not going to make him very popular with the rest of the House, which has started providing for his needs...
...foot patrolmen are the backbone of the Harvard police and their function seems to be similar to that of night watchmen in the Houses, with two important differences. The men are mobile rather than stationary, and each man is armed with a 38 Smith and Wesson revolver, a billy club, and handcuffs...
...laws that "protect" women workers by regulating their hours and the kinds of work they can perform. The women's movement believes that such protections form a kind of conspiracy to prevent women from expanding their employment opportunities. In Ohio, for example, women cannot work as crossing watchmen, electric-meter readers, shoeshine girls, pin setters in bowling alleys. In nine states women cannot be employed in establishments serving alcohol...