Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single out the snowflake that starts an avalanche. Maybe, for Venturi, it was the last day of the 1960 Masters, when he was half-carried away from the 18th hole, measured for a green winner's blazer, and plunked down in front of a TV set-to watch Palmer birdie the last two holes and win. Things certainly went from bad to worse after that. He was plagued by a series of bizarre physical ailments: a pinched nerve that paralyzed half his chest, a stubborn virus infection, a hand injury, an automobile accident. In the next four years Venturi...
...high school graduates designated as "Presidential Scholars," let them wander through the public rooms and over the lawns for nearly five hours. Lynda Bird presided over a hamburger picnic while the Kingston Trio supplied an upbeat and Lyndon and Lady Bird stretched out on the cool grass to watch...
...will have to live for it in jail. After the sentencing, a crowd held in check by police dogs and armed cops gathered outside the Palace of Justice to watch the prisoners being led away. Two Black Marias purred through the square, then accelerated swiftly toward Pretoria Central Jail. From there, the black and "colored" prisoners would be ferried to Robben Island, a former leper colony off the Cape of Good Hope, while the white man would stay in a white prison. As the trucks pulled away, white, black and brown arms flashed briefly behind the bars in the clench...
...dramatic role and whose stunningly right performance is worth a visit in itself) is a coffee importer. Gilroy's father, now dead, was a coffee importer and one of the best tasters in the busi ness. As a youngster, Gilroy used to go down to Front Street and watch his father tasting coffee, noting how all the phonies present would form their own opinions from his father's grunts and grimaces...
...Morroe ultimately comes off best. Beset by his companions, in a drunken peroration Morroe appeals to his dead friend: "Leslie, he begged, intercede for me. I am no big intellect. I am no bargain. I watch too much television. I read, but I do not retain. I am not lost exactly, but I am still nowhere. I am the servant of no great cause. I follow the recommendations of the Consumer's Research Bulletin...