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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Stadium is a fine place to watch a football game. Sight lines are excellent, considered to be among the best in the country, and there's barely a bad seat in the house...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Sports: Look-ins and Zig-outs | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...only ice skating facility in the University. Though Watson is relatively old as hockey arenas go, it has one of the hardest and best ice surfaces in the East. Small (seating capacity is only 1900) even by college standards, Watson is a cozy, noisy, and enjoyable place to watch hockey, so long as you can stand the freezing temperatures inside the arena. Watson is reputed to be the second coldest rink in the East, next to Vermont...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Sports: Look-ins and Zig-outs | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

Then you finally have the great majority of Harvard students who go to the hockey and football games more as a social event than anything else. It's somewhere to bring a date from Wellesley, an excuse to get drunk, or just to watch a roommate...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Sports: Look-ins and Zig-outs | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...agents kept watch on the house for hours, awaiting Sam's release. As the time dragged on, the fearful Bronfman family finally agreed that he should be rescued. Guns drawn, local police and 30 FBI agents rushed into the first-floor apartment at 4 a.m. They found Lynch, who offered no resistance, although a .45 automatic was near by. More important, Sam was indeed there, blindfolded and bound. He was undernourished, but well. He had spent the entire time in the apartment, usually tied to a bed or chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Saga of an Abduction | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...worthy of attention. Television undoubtedly has something to do with that. With its chaotic parade of images TV makes language subordinate, merely a part of the general noise. It has certainly subverted the idea of reading as entertainment. A recent study by A.C. Nielsen Co. found that Americans watch a numbing average of 3.8 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: CAN'T ANYONE HERE SPEAK ENGLISH? | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

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