Word: watching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cannot afford to make heroes out of men who simply ski, golf, watch eagles and sing trite songs...
EVERY YEAR, Harvard Yard becomes an experiment in social engineering. The casting is done by the Admissions Office and the choreography detailed by University Hall. When the class has been chosen, and the suites homogenized and the entries mixed, the administrators sit back and watch a few hundred high school valedictorians battle...
With this terrain to work with, plays were set up like military maneuvers. "Okay, Stretch, run a slant out to the sideline, then cut back to the ditch in the middle. Run your man into the ditch. Maybe he'll break something." Or "Curl in around the rock, but watch out for the bramble bushes--they scratch like hell" (we always used "hell" in the huddle because nobody could hear us there...
Until recently such sentiments would have been contrary to the traditional American spirit of boosterism, the antithesis of the goal emblazoned on the WATCH US GROW signs on the outskirts of countless towns and villages. But now they express the mainstream of American opinion, and in communities across the U.S. reflect growing concern about the use, and the misuse, of the land...
...away almost every shot within reach. "I never could get over her head," Riggs later admitted. He unaccountably fed her appetite for backhand smashes and volleys; a full 70 of her 109 points were outright winners-shots that Riggs never touched. Time and again he was forced to watch helplessly as Billie Jean rushed the net and slapped the ball past him. Between sets, Riggs' son Jimmy, 20, said: "Come on, Dad, wake up." No chance. Riggs never really got into the game...