Word: watch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile Soviet freighters at Haiphong were unloading resupplies of sophisticated hardware, including missiles and radar equipment. Soviet reconnaissance kept watch on the battlefronts with high-altitude sorties over the Gulf of Tonkin. A flotilla of 13 Soviet ships cruised the South China Sea, awaiting the arrival of the flagship of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, the 16,000-ton cruiser Admiral Senyavin...
When Sara leaves high school, her mother presents official rules for the mating game: "First a watch, then an engagement ring, finally a wedding band. After marriage, a woman should get a mink stole, then a mink jacket, then a mink coat, then a house on Long Island." But by the time Sara passes step No. 3, the rules no longer apply...
...Harvard swimming coaches in recent years, the announcement of diving scores has become music to their ears, meaning that it's time to sit back and watch the points pile up on the scoreboard in the column under...
Yates was only too glad to leave when his hearing came before the Dover-Foxcroft District courtroom. Though he was able to write a long letter, read as many paperbacks as he wanted to and watch T.V.--"Ironically the movie on Sunday night was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'"--Yates realized that "time goes very slowly. You're trapped. You've nothing to do except what you can generate yourself. Ten days in jail would have been too much. One hundred days would have been out of the question...
Children in the United States watch an average of about four hours of television every day of the year. Formerly a moderate viewer, I have watched little in the past six months. But in preparation for a column in What is to be done?, and not, as some have suggested, a desire for self-abuse, I sat in front of America's favorite plaything from 7 to 11 p.m. Monday. My recollections of those four hours follow...