Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monitoring of U.S. dissidents began with Lyndon Johnson's anxiety that foreigners were financing and organizing antiwar groups seeking to drive him from office. The FBI and CIA submitted watch lists. The Defense Intelligence Agency had the NSA monitor the foreign communications of about 20 Americans who were traveling to North Viet...
...behalf of the defense. Despite Justice Department objections, MacBride agreed and last week ordered Ford to testify and to be questioned by Virga. He did add, however, that Ford could limit himself to a videotaped deposition in Washington, an innovative technical advance that makes it possible for juries to watch and hear witnesses who cannot appear in court...
...recent performances is entirely absent here, and she is the tough-minded, high-spirited Kate of blessed memory. And the Duke, too, is his old self-the slackness engendered by a succession of dismal late films banished. In short, they are good for each other and fun to watch...
...editor of Neurotica, a daring little Freudian quarterly of the late '40s. Legman published his polemical essays attacking violence in comic books. He was an early critic of censorship that allows children to watch dramatizations of murder and mayhem but prevents them from seeing people making love. Lenny Bruce frequently goaded his nightclub audiences with the same point. Legman, never one to be upstaged by a comic, now claims authorship of the slogan "Make Love...
Around the start of the fourth quarter I would sit down with my empty rack and watch the game begin. That was the best thing about Ivy football--nothing of consequence ever seems to happen before the fourth quarter. So while everyone in the stadium had spent three quarters sitting around eating popcorn I had earned the tidy sum of $8 and hadn't missed a thing. Very enterprising...