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Word: watch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pews. The first to show that morning had been Earl Hendricks, the local political expert in this small town of five gas stations and half a movie theater (there were only shows on Friday and Saturday). Earl was in the front row, double-chin set and eyes lowered to watch Jackson ready himself for his speech...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: That No-Time Jackson Religion | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...March 26, Harvard crushed Springfield, 15-3. The game was played on Ohiri Field in the pouring rain. Thirty fans braved the harsh weather conditions to watch Harvard triumph...

Author: By Nicholas N. Branca, | Title: Quakers Get Best Of Laxmen, 15-10 | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

...wife Lois are on their way home to Memphis the long, old-fashioned way: across the Rockies to Chicago, then south on the City of New Orleans. Every inch, every jolt, every valley is familiar to him and much loved, for when he retired with a gold watch last August, Woody had worked the trains for 51 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: America Gets Back on Track | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard] totally mesmerized us," Belmonte said. "We played like we bought a ticket to the game. We just came to watch Harvard play...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Not Quite a Classic | 4/1/1988 | See Source »

...Although George Bush had adamantly rejected Bob Dole's challenge to a series of debates in Illinois, both wound up at separate events at Knox College in Galesburg, site of a Lincoln-Douglas clash. Fearful of an ambush, Bush's men dispatched a staffer with a walkie-talkie to watch Dole. When Dole finished his event and headed toward where Bush was giving his dinner speech, the staffer frantically radioed, "He's on his way over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Grapevine | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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