Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title?on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town, and all the inhabitants have gone to watch a game on the community screen...
President-elect Carter originally considered offering the position to Patrick Anderson, his present speechwriter, according to the article written by John Osborne in the regular "White House Watch" column...
...state police at 36 yards. They were going to come roaring up this little ramp-like section of road and Chuck was going to turn right, up U.S. 119 towards Clendenin, and Elvin was supposed to go left. Everybody came out of the Elkview Dairy Bar to watch. On the other side of the main highway there was a three-foot ditch and a twenty-foot rock cliff. Somebody asked Elvin what he'd do if he couldn't make the turn and hit the cliff. Elvin said he'd jump that son-of-a-bitch...
...current cinema. I make up stupid country songs and laugh at the women's circle of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Clendenin (South); but O God: there are times when I want to go home so bad, just sit on the porch with a glass of bourbon and watch smoke curl out of my father's pipe and the cars across the river. Then I go back to my room and close the door and listen to John Prine...
...been swollen by decades of publicity. Steel still goes into an extraordinarily broad variety of products; makers of goods ranging from autos to toasters may seize on steel boosts, justifiably or not, as an excuse to raise their own prices. And makers of many other basic materials tend to watch how politicians react to steel increases as a clue to what price hikes they themselves may get away with...