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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder exactly what Mr. Billy Graham meant by the "high standard of Russian morality" [June 29]. Can the constant watch of Big Brother induce genuine virtue? If Russian people are intrinsically on a higher moral level than the British people, how is it to be explained that Russian troops cruelly misused women in the countries they fought and occupied? Did they leave their "moral purity" at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Outside the great U.S. Steel Corp. plant in Gary, Ind., the steelworkers union set up three tents so that strikers could sit down and watch TV when they got bored with marching in the picket line. "We may have to be here a spell," drawled one striker. "Might as well relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Two-Way Street? | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

More than a million Chicagoans lined the Lake Michigan shore front to watch the royal yacht Britannia steam into harbor, escorted by seven warships and saluted by more than 500 small craft, including two Chinese junks. U.S. Air Force and Navy jets thundered across the sky; aerial torpedoes exploded parachutes carrying the Stars and Stripes and Union Jacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: All Out in Chicago | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...cashing in. Two days after his homecoming, Ingo hit the road on an exhibition tour aimed at earning $50,000, climbed into the ring for a few friendly rounds with brother Rolf, an amateur boxer. At Osthammar, some 3,000 fans crowded in (at $1 a head) to watch in vain for The Punch, chuckle at the champ's cries ("Throw me some mosquito oil"), and cheer happily when the referee solemnly declared him the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ingo's Return | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Regulus would be close to the eastern horizon with the sun above them. With help from the U.S. Air Force and Boeing Airplane Co., Harvard sent trained observers with elaborate light measuring devices to France, Spain, Italy and Lebanon; other astronomers in South Africa and Asia set up watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lighted by Regulus | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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