Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hoover had FBI men do his repair work. Since bugs or bombs could have easily been planted by repairmen, wasn't it safer and more economical for loyal employees to do the work? An alternative would have been to hire outside help and assign a loyal agent to watch each repairman...
...second period, the Quakers turned war-like, and wound up with five penalties being called against them. A man or more up for almost half the period, Harvard could do no more than crank 13 shots on net and watch Sutton kick, glove or do whatever was necessary to stop them...
John Ryman, British Labor M.P., explaining his plans to pass up a debate in the Parliament and watch a football game: "Football is more important than politics, and footballers are more amusing than politicians...
Begelman was calmly going about his business last week. Every morning he arrived at his Burbank studio by 9 to view rushes of the previous day's filming, and he was keeping sharp watch on his latest hit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
...testimonials work wonders (Ogilvy quotes verbatim an honorary degree citation awarded him by Adelphi University). The adman is now retired to a 37-bedroom medieval French chateau. There he continues to produce work that sounds less like a grand seigneur than a great copywriter: "How would you like to watch a Wall Creeper running up and down the apricot walls?" he writes. "You lunch in the garden in the shade of a seventeenth-century holly tree...