Word: watching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaties provided for an 18 months' probation period, during which the Allied military missions in Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia were to watch, "in concert," the activities of the defeated nations. Last week, the probation period was up. The U.S. and Britain took the occasion to tell the world how the three Russian satellites respected their solemn obligations...
...WATCH THE NORTH WIND RISE (290 pp.) -Robert Graves-Creative...
...Watch the North Wind Rise is no great shakes either as a novel or a sociological essay. But it manages to stand up-and to stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...
Armed with a hot tip on number 2 and unable to watch from any place but the far turn, the two saw the horses toddic by into the stretch. They heard the following jockey repartee as the beasts passed by. "Hey, where's number 2? Let him through, let him through...
...Hubert remains undecided about the disposal of: a $3,000 diamond ring and a $1,000 star sapphire; a $2,500 diamond watch; a custom-built $1,000 kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else-like California...