Word: watching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep up -with the news, an intelligent human being has to watch the language. It lives and changes constantly, with the development of new words and expressions and new uses for old words and expressions. Keeping up with the language in this week's TIME: aminotriazole. Bad for Thanksgiving. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.). crotchet. A quarter note. See Music, Family Orchestra...
...decided early that he was going to finish high school, no matter what, and there he found football. When Sam made the Class-B all-state team as a 200-lb. tackle for Farmington High School, Coach Art ("Pappy") Lewis of West Virginia University began dropping by to watch him play. "He was hunting all over the field for people to knock down even then," says Lewis. With a full scholarship to West Virginia, Huff majored in physical education (C plus grades) to get ready for a coaching career, dutifully plowed through such classes as Ballroom Dance, Fundamentals of Basketball...
Even at the all-important Yale encounter at 2 p.m. in New Haven, with the Ivy championship at stake, only 100 hardy followers bothered to watch. Freshman and J.V. football each drew many more spectators, and even some of the House contests rivaled what should have been the day's feature attraction...
...elected mayor despite the fact that Garcia had sent down Osmena's own father to campaign against him. Easy frontrunner among the 32 candidates for the eight Senate seats was Liberal Ferdinand Marcos, a handsome veteran of the Bataan Death March, who emerges as a man to watch in Philippine politics. Way down in 14th place was colorless Juan Pajo, who as Presidential Executive Secretary serves Garcia on his most delicate errands...
...guest shots. Comic George Jessel has a knack for veering the conversation to Bulova watches. While palavering with Jack Paar before millions of viewers not long ago, Georgie went on and on about his watch, a Bulova. When being Person to Personed by Ed Murrow, Jessel lovingly showed off five clocks in his house; all five were gifts from Bulova. (Genial Georgie insists neither mention was intended as a plug...