Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN I WAS ten years old, my friend Dougy and I used to talk in the cafeteria lunch line about the TV shows we watched each night. TV was the only reason we were friends. He would come over to my house on weekends, and we would watch a horror movie on the GE television my great-grandmother had given me when I was eight. Once, when the channel selector knob on my parents' TV broke off, I used a pair of pliers to turn the rod around, proudly telling my folks what network they were watching as I recognized...
...whole world," mused Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali after welcoming Susan Ford to his Maryland training quarters last week. Susan, 18, who had first met him at the White House last March, had come to see Ali before his title defense against third-ranked Heavyweight Jimmy Young. "I used to watch him box on television," she said of the champ. "I had no choice; my brothers used to watch, and we only had one TV set." She said she would like to have seen this fight live-at Maryland's Capital Center-but she had a date for the weekend...
...papers, Bechtel asserts that the acts of these agencies "are as much a declaration of law and policy" as the Justice Department suit. The next step is hearings in a federal district court in San Francisco, which every U.S. company-not to mention Government agencies and Jewish organizations-will watch with interest...
...down at my bucket, looked at me, and closed the door. But they caught on after awhile. It got so they would say 'just a minute,' rush in and get rid of everything I wasn't supposed to see. And sometimes five or six guys would stand around and watch me while I worked...
...living rooms have plenty of privacy, long as no one wants to use the phone, or the refrigerator, or as long as no body walks in or out of the front door, or as long as no body wants to have a party, or play four-way bridge, or watch TV, or play some music, or all those things that other people in other Houses do in their living room...