Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...injury list grows on, and with each toll of the death bell it gets to the point where if you want to watch Harvard hockey in action you have to pull up a rinkside wheelchair at Stillman Infirmary...
After Begin presented the Israeli proposals for Sinai, the West Bank and Gaza, the Egyptian looked at his watch and announced: "I think we worked hard today. Let us take a break before lunch and make a small trip." Even the drivers and bodyguards had been given no warning of this excursion and had to scramble to their cars. Sadat ushered Begin into the front seat of a Cadillac and asked Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan to climb into the back. To everyone's surprise, Sadat got behind the steering wheel...
Since Little's day, conglomerates have become a dirty word on Wall Street; many hastily concocted ones fell apart. Textron is different: under Miller's management, it has combined Bell helicopters, Homelite chain saws, Talon zippers, Speidel watch bands and dozens of other products into a business that now grosses $2.6 billion a year and is increasing profits at an average of about 10% annually-just about meeting Miller's target...
Another factor behind the decline may be new technology, which gave rise to TV in the first place. TV game-adapters are among the hottest items in the stores these days, and many people may be giggling over their own game shows, rather than watching one imported from Hollywood. Cassette machines are also becoming big sellers, and a few-but an ever larger few-may be looking at their old favorites on cassettes rather than tuning in to the new favorites of the networks. Neither home games nor video cassettes are measured by the ratings services, and people, paradoxically...
...individual reward, in prospect?made me feel that I belonged not merely in my immediate family at home, or even the big family of the village, but in something vaster and more significant: the land. It was that feeling that made me, on the way home at sunset, watch the evening scene with a rare warmth, recognizing an invisible bond of love and friendship with everything around me?smoke rolling down the valley, promising a delicious meal at the close of a village day, and perfect calm and peace in the hearts...