Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gold medals and one silver at the '72 Olympics in Munich. Her hair unkempt, the red bows on her two pony tails askew, her face at moments haggard beyond middle age, she displayed an overwhelming desire for victory while faced with certain defeat. She ignored Comaneci, refused to watch her rival perform. At one point Korbut burst into tears, at another ostentatiously iced an ailing ankle ("Every athlete always has something that hurts. If you don't, that's when you should start to worry"). When the stadium rocked with applause after Comaneci received her fourth...
...Detroit News has added something new to the list: selling papers. For every 13-week subscription a staffer can peddle, the News announced last week, he or she will earn two points toward a catalogue full of gifts, from a Rubbermaid bird feeder (six points) to a digital watch (100 points...
...minister, told the group that it was no accident that Carter is in tune with blacks. Announced Young: "By the grace of God, Jimmy's next-door neighbor was a black bishop." Responded the ministers: "Amen!" Continued Young: "From the early days of his life, he had to watch that bishop drive his long black Packard by his house." "Amen." "His father and the bishop used to have prayer meetings together." "Amen." "In a mysterious way, the Lord gets his things together." "Amen...
...quiet village of Traves (pop. 357) in the Vosges Mountains of France at first thought they were Bastille Day firecrackers. But word quickly spread that Le Renfort, the small, neat vacation home of the quiet, graying man known locally as "the German," was afire. Curious villagers gathered to watch the blaze and were still there when firemen pulled a charred body out of the library. Muttered Ernest Rigoulot, the village mayor: "I wanted him to leave. We pressured him, but he didn't want...
...watch with respect, sympathy and anxiety-and sometimes almost with despair-as Americans endeavor to cope with the political and moral results of their own wealth-creating economic system, and to give international meaning to the principles laid down by the founding fathers of their nation...