Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought I had a pretty good game," said Miller. "It's fantastic having Tommy [Winn] beside me, because the other team can't just key on me. Now they also have to watch him on the outside, and that opens things up for me in the middle...
...Nixon has kept a grim watch at the hospital, leaving only for brief periods of rest. At the doctors' suggestion, she has not returned to San Clemente, 50 miles away. Julie and Tricia flew in to comfort their mother and help answer the calls from old family friends, including Betty Ford. Other people phoned the hospital offering to donate blood, but all such offers were politely declined, since the hospital had a plentiful supply of the type A-positive blood that Nixon needs...
...second goal, however, didn't have to rely on a befuddled Princeton squad. "It was one of the nicest set-ups and goals of the year," Ford commented. "It was really beautiful to watch...
...there were plenty of other things to do when chit-chat about old prep school buddies and blustering predictions about the next day's games began to pall. You could always just watch. Or you could get drunk, if the jostling, six-deep crowd at the bar didn't scare you off (and it usually didn't). Or you could blow your money on roulette and backgammon. You could fox-trot to a three-man band, complete with a black pianist playing "As Time Goes By." Or you could be interviewed by The New York Times...
...large. What do ironworkers think about? How does their community work? Whenever Cherry fears his subjects are getting too much like automatons with accents he reverts to a "fun" incident--the workers playing a joke on an apprentice named Peter the Putrid Punk, or collecting on a girder to watch the hookers go by on Sixth Avenue. But the games are usually just buddies horsing around--not iron-workers--and they seem artificially imposed, stuck in to jazz up the plodding descriptions of the work...