Word: watch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this era of exit polls and televised results, city residents still watch officials spend more than a week counting their preferential ballots to determine the outcome of City Council and School Committee contests...
...disasters than the one they suffered has reinforced their determination to restore normality to their lives. Hugo tore the roof off Betty Disher's home on Sullivan's Island, which some experts think should be off limits to development because of its vulnerability to hurricanes. She was unable to watch televised reports about the quake. Now she and her husband Johnny have made an optimistic choice. "We have decided that we are going to repair the house even if it is wrong," she vows. "We are going home...
...members of Ecoglasnost were later released, but the crackdown was a crude warning to Bulgarian political activists to watch their step. It was one more indication of just how nervous Eastern Europe's remaining hard-line regimes have become as a result of the year's dramatic political changes elsewhere in the bloc. The obdurate rulers in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania refuse to imitate their reformist neighbors but can't help looking anxiously over their shoulder. "They are all worried about the fallout from change elsewhere," said a Western diplomat in the region. A Bulgarian proverb captures the fears: "When...
...example, a leak to ABC News undermined the summer espionage investigation of former Austrian ambassador Felix Bloch. Television audiences could watch investigators following an entourage of the press following Bloch...
Then they hit play. They groan as a corner kick flies into the middle of the penalty box. They cringe as Brown halfback Suzanne Bailey nails a header towards the far post. They shudder as Crimson back Amy Weinstein dashes across the goal in a desperate save attempt. They watch in horror as the ball trickles across the line...