Word: watch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President is sworn in-as the generals keep watch...
gymnasium to watch Dominique do his stuff. Naturally, North Carolina State, a perennial basketball power, was interested. Concedes its athletic director, Willis Casey: "We wanted him in the worst way." David Thompson, a former N.C. State forward who is now one of the highest paid players in the National Basketball Association, sent Dominique a personal, written-by-hand letter. The school gave him free tickets to its home games. And when that snazzy red and white Chrysler showed up in the driveway outside his mother's modest apartment in the Runyon Creek public housing project, everyone assumed that...
Richard Nixon's opening to China and his detente with the Soviets were, in their way, creative and peaceful substitutes for crisis. Power balances changed and much of the world paused in other mischief to watch and wait...
Last fall the Soviet Union launched a ferocious propaganda campaign against the NATO missile proposals. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev declared that the Soviet Union would not "watch indifferently the efforts of the NATO militarists," but would be ready to "take the necessary extra steps to strengthen our security." In a loudly proclaimed peace ges-ture-a carrot to accompany the stick -the Soviets last month announced the withdrawal of some obsolescent tank divisions from East Germany...
Though the music was not billed to being until 8 p.m., the crowd started building outside the coliseum around 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. By 3, the police had arrived to keep watch. With so long to wait, the kids tried to keep a party mood going. There was some drinking, some grass...