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Word: watching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong field contingent carried the bulk of Harvard's scoring under the frustrated watch of prime talent on the bench...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huskies Top Crimson, 81-71 | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Where is the spirit of '76? During this Bicentennial of our hard-won freedom, we are searching for meaningful ways to celebrate while we stand by and watch first Cambodia, then South Viet Nam fall to an aggressor [March 31]. As the dominoes fall, will it be Thailand next, then South Korea, Nationalist China on Formosa and so on? These people have fought and are still fighting for the same basic reasons for which we took on Great Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Apr. 14, 1975 | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Cohen said that the delay in the prosecution of the experimenters' case is due partially to attornies' decision "to wait and watch the Edelin decision," and that a motion to dismiss based on a defendant's right to a "speedy trial" would thus probably be out of order...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Researchers Still Await Trial, One Year After Indictments | 4/11/1975 | See Source »

...hairdresser, as he lets us know at the outset with the flashing of "Election Day" on the dark screen, and as he reminds us every time we see the face that is becoming the most comic mug since Tom Dewey. Ah, yes, we think, as we watch George's tumescence, very similar to the swelling of CREEP's campaign funds. A pair of legs spreading apart, we realize, is quite analogous to the hairy palm of a politician opening up to receive a bribe. As we watch George lose Jackie at just the moment he recognizes his love...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Soggy Suds | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...have to be there to sense the mania connected with the Oscars. Television has cooled us off so much that we forget that there is something going on, live when we watch the Awards. Three thousand people are sitting on tacks, and it's not because they're worried about prestige--they're worried about their lives, their salaries, their rank in the Hollywood hierarchy. The winner of the Best Picture of the Year award is likely to double, maybe triple its gross profits in the months following the show. A Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: The Envelope, Please | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

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