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Word: watch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday's Super Bowl game put many Harvard students in a dilemma: to watch, or to study...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Super Bowl Attracts Viewers But Exams Draw Many Away | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Then, somehow I am not with them. I am in the sky, flying, watching them go . . . I see myself as bird, with them, flying, up behind Alfonso and Birdie. I know I will be with them wherever they go. I watch from my place in the sky as they, we, become small spots getting smaller until there is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flights of Fact and Fancy | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Throughout, Voznesensky's work is transfigured by metaphors. A man clothes himself in a suit, a car, a garage, a nation, a planet, a cosmos-and then realizes that he has forgotten his watch. Timeless, he has lost his place in history. A girl's black bell-bottomed trousers "flare out as shadow would flare out/ If the source of light/ Were centered in her belly." The poet moves in his leather jacket, "a cow's hide stuffed with soul." In "War" he compresses the century's anguish to four barbed-wire lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Periscope of The Buried Dead | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

During the week following the default, amid the prospects of mass layoffs of the city's safety forces and threats of strikes and civil disorders, Kucinich finally backed down on the Muny Light issue. He was forced to sit and watch at an emergency Cleveland city council meeting as fiery president George L. Forbes rammed through legislation that left the sale of Muny Light and a city income tax increase up to the voters in a Feb. 27 referendum...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Cleveland: | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Freshman Marc Cooley, whom Mulvihill referred to as "the man to watch", came from behind to nip his Lowell counterpart, 10-9. In the other 190-1bs. bout against Coast Guard, John Williams wrestled aggressively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Pin Lowell, MIT, Drop One to Coast Guard | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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