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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vanishing Files. One potentially formidable roadblock to Jimmy Hoffa's plans is a three-member Board of Monitors, set up in early 1958 by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to watch over Teamster affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pretty Simple Life | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Middle East's air waves with choice blends of camel drivers' curses, ancestral aspersions and bogeyman bombast. Heckling Hussein as "the little king" and "a British Zionist agent," Nasser's radios warned Hussein and "his gang" that the Jordanians would soon "hang you on poles and watch your rotten bodies swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Such Good Friends Again | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

They come early enough to watch fielding practice and stay to see the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season in the Sun | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Power Man. In Cleveland, the new star is a tall, trim (6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs.), swarthily handsome rightfielder, who makes the bobby-soxers squeal, pulls seasoned fans into Cleveland Stadium two hours early to watch him take his cuts in the batting cage. When he comes to the plate during a game, the stands fall silent and candy butchers ignore customers to steal a look. Rocco Domenico Colavito, just turned 26, stirs excitement every time he picks up his medium (33 oz.) bat, paws with his right foot in the box until he is rooted like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season in the Sun | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Invented. As the carnival death watch continues, townspeople chained in the Platonic cave of illusion begin "to break through to the heart of the dark mystery which was themselves." By the time Isaac has at last reported that Jasper is dead, a number of astonishing and preposterously pat character changes have taken place. A Greek restaurateur, sexually disturbed because his fat wife is not Jean Harlow, has begun to look upon her with fond normalcy. Jasper's half-illiterate old man, a skirt chaser and Homeric hell raiser in his bachelorhood, experiences a blinding illumination and begins to sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadow & Substance | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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