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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Communists had set a time limit for a separate surrender of Peiping. With the fall of Tientsin, ECA cut off flour and wheat shipments to Nationalist China under a "watch and see" policy. Red capture of the city freed an estimated 150,000 Communist troops for new operations. It also gave them a direct rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: High-Flying Terms | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...gets his exercise by hiking through G.M. plants, where he enjoys listening to the syncopated rhythm of the production line. While walking some guests through Chevrolet's forge plant recently, he stopped to watch a young Negro feed long, red-hot rods into a machine which twisted them into knee-action coil springs. "Look," Wilson nudged a visitor. "He's going to let the rods pile up to show us how fast he can work. See how he gives the ends a little twist? He's our best man on this job because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last dollar, he went to the East River to drown himself. A drunken Scotsman danced around him singing. A canal boatman offered him a ride to Tonawanda. He gave up suicide, set out the next day to pawn his watch. On the way he met brother Paul, who tearfully pressed a roll of bills into his hand and sent him to a sanatorium for rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brother | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Watch Spivak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Track Squad Enters 16 In K of C Meet Tomorrow Night | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

...Investigation." By doing this, they might be able to eliminate the stealthy creep and the awful eye that characterize so many Harvard examination rooms. A student taking an exam is a pathetic creature. Let him at least feel that if he looks around the room or glances at his watch, he is not in danger of instant indictment by the House Un-American Activities Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Suggestions | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

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