Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They had come to watch President Gerald Ford sign an $11.8 billion mass-transportation bill. The money, which will be distributed to cities and states over the next six years, is the largest federal subsidy ever approved for mass transit and the first to include funds for the day-to-day operations of urban rail, bus and subway systems...
...station ourselves on the hillside overlooking the 6th curve. This, a tight downhill curve necessitating a great deal of finesse, is an ideal spot to watch the drivers. So deep into his car that I can only see his over-sized helmet and spastically jerking hands, the driver comes down-shifting through the turn and accelerates down a short straight and out of our vision. Nestled in bladders of gasoline, his is a desperate, faceless struggle to control such a hell-bent machine as it screams toward pure speed. Peter Revson's helmet was painted into a big toothy smile...
...thing, they were interested in everything: the best way to learn English, the meaning of Naderism, what movies American students watch, what Watergate was likely to lead to, what did we think about the Middle East and would the Arab states be likely to make peace if Israel repatriated the Palestinian refugees. A lot of the young people evidently read the Reference News, a digest of reports from foreign newspapers which they say is officially restricted but in practice pretty widely available. "What is your attitude toward black people?" one of them asked once. "Of course I realize you probably...
...Harvard skaters bombarded the three different Boston State goalies with 57 shots. The goaltending reached an afternoon low when a State net minder attempted to sweep a dribbling shot from the red line to the side only to watch it slip between his legs...
...Watch What We Do, Not What...