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Word: watch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost it all through some bad breaks, including his back and left leg, and had traded in his 1976 Jag for a 1960 Rambler. He took me to a gas station in Gallup, where two Mexicans in a pickup truck let me ride in the back and either watch New Mexico fade away backwards, or, if I turned around, to watch the driver's t-shirt, which contained the local folk wisdom of "Four Wheelers Eat More Bush...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Riding a Greyhound In Search of America | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...appearing at an international orchestra competition in Berlin, but you can judge its competence for yourself this Saturday night in Sanders Theater, when James Yannatos conducts a program of Debussy, Verdi, Copland and Schumann. The programs for the rest of the year aren't quite as wide-ranging, but watch for Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 5 in November and Schubert's Fifth Symphony in March...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: On Pitch: A Patchwork Preview | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

Finally, remember to watch for concerts and seminars by Boston University, The Museum of Fine Arts and especially The New England Conservatory. Adding it all up, it's impossible not to find half a dozen appealing concerts every week in and around the Harvard area...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: On Pitch: A Patchwork Preview | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

Even as controversy raged over how many died the week before in protests (the official figure is 98, but there is a widespread belief that at least several hundred were killed, and some claim as many as 2,000), families of the victims gathered at gravesides, where soldiers kept watch. After the services, the mourners dispersed in small groups of three, as ordered. "They can pray, they can bury, but they can't demonstrate," said a colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Second Thoughts--and Chances | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...series of "hate-groups" to depose a governor who was hated with the depth that Dukakis was, and, in fact, Edward J. King has little political skill and clearly has no subtlety. Another liberal activist and sometime candidate for office refused to read King's campaign literature or even watch him on television, saying, "If I hear anymore of what he says, he'll convince me not to vote...

Author: By H. BRYCE Davis, | Title: The Morning After | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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