Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jogging past a bar in Framingham (6.75 miles), runners strode to Elvis tunes performed by a live country-western band perched on the tavern roof. One runner said of the crowd: "They think they came out to watch us--WE came out to watch them...
...notoriety may dredge up much of the buried grime in nuclear power. Dartmouth president John G. Kemeney will head the Presidential Commission set to examine nuclear power, and he has promised a complete and careful inspection of the state of the industry. He will be under the careful watch of the public and the many outraged elected officials who have capitalized on the recent threat to national welfare as a vote-getting band-wagon ripe for boarding...
...high domed nuclear reactor container buildings were scarcely discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River, eleven miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pa. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident in the history of U.S. nuclear power production...
...fact, that is not likely to happen very often. Most people instinctively watch Ayckbourn. Something is going on behind that face of vanilla pudding, but they are not quite sure what. If they had seen any of his 22 plays, however, they would know: Ayckbourn is watching them, his eyes alert for what he calls those "quick social embarrassments" that comprise the human comedy...
...system. They lost their power to hurt me seriously long ago. I'm inured to it. It is only in those rare occasions when I delude myself into thinking that I am entering an atmosphere that is somehow benign or "safe," where I'm not going to have to watch my every word and gesture, that are lethal. When I thought I could suspend the usual caution that I exercise with whites that I don't know very well I got the verbal equivalent of a sledgehammer in my face...