Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-hour anniversary ceremony at Kampala's Nakivubo football stadium held late last month was as bizarre and ludicrous as its sponsor. Along with the traditional drums and dancers, the center of attention was Amin's "Black Watch," a motley assortment of Ugandan soldiers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts, tunics, diced glengarries and plastic sporrans decorated with pied crow feathers. A dozen Africans puffed Scotland the Brave on bagpipes-a measure of Amin's admiration for the Scots, which dates back to his days in the British army...
...Committee on General Education has been forced to stand by and watch the program's decline. With no power either to initiate courses or make appointments, the only action it can take is "to plead, cajole and beg" said Kiely, chairman of the committee. It is entirely dependent upon the initiative of a Faculty that should have a clear idea of what General Education is and is meant to be. In the recent past the committee has been unable to reflect, as it ideally should, the visions of the Faculty; for the Faculty has been unable to form...
...classic Peanuts, Lucy tells Linus about Rosebud as he starts to watch Citizen Kane. Any true whodunit can be ruined that way--it's a foolproof test. The most facile of the genre proceed according to a formula, and if you're good enough--as my mother is with Perry Massons--you can guess the victim, and then, the murderer, nine times...
...Pause from this time on Sir," the attorney a large man in a dark blue suit said gruffly as he stared down at his watch in apparent ignorance of the tableau he had just created in room 906 of the Suffolk County Court house. For the jury man watching earnestly the partisans in the gallery had stopped rustling their literature the prosecutor was suffering quietly with his back in Edelin, the reporters had stopped taking notes, the officious court officers were sitting in glum disability, and the judge had yielded his court to an cerie silence and the imaginary proscenium...
...until he sensed the time was up and raised an eyebrow towards the attorney as if to obtain his release. Four people in the gallery laughed nervously, the suddenly useful court officer snapped his gavel hard into his desk to maintain order, the attorney snapped his chinup from his watch, and the three minutes were up suddenly...