Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members and so forth, and that he didn't have any criminal intent." Asked if he had discussed the Nixon affair during his trip to London, the President said he had. Several of the summit participants had raised the matter and deplored the "resurrection of Watergate." Would Carter watch the second Nixon interview? No, said the President. "I've got other things...
...above the North Atlantic, so lonely half a century ago that Charles Lindbergh said he communed with ghosts and guardian spirits, is dense now with 747s, the flying auditoriums that are just beginning their summer trade. Passengers doze over their drinks, eat flash-frozen steaks, watch movies through a passage as passive as Muzak. The New York-to-Paris odyssey that took Lindbergh 33½ hours would be a 3½-hour streak for the Concorde...
...regatta, commonly known as The Race, is America's oldest intercollegiate athletic event. As usual, it will be held on the Thames River, and Harvard will boat their crews from their riverside property at Red Top while thousands of spectators watch the confrontation from the banks and from private yachts anchored along the course...
...show begins: the scramble for tickets, the quick glance for seats and the stop at the bar to order drinks leisurely. Do It Yourself is constantly entertaining and always involving the audience. Even the intermission is busy with amusement; the bar reopens and the standing crowd gathers to watch the two dazzling jugglers who get the most enthusiastic applause of the night...
...American Way of Life with its energy use is like a canoe approaching Niagara Falls. Unfortunately we are all in this boat together, and we have just been thrown the last rope. Are we now going to sit and watch our politicians let it slip away, because they can't decide whether or not it might bruise their fingers if they grab...