Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refurbished and enlarged. The President uses the master suite while there and often works during the early morning hours in the attached private study. Besides fishing, Nixon rides around the 125-acre island on a golf cart, and swims in the shark-filled waters-always, of course, under close watch by Secret Service agents...
...short, acute idiom of Lincoln, Twain - or a Hoosier caricaturist named Kin Hubbard. A pity. In the voice of Abe Martin, a wise old rustic, Hubbard once cracked: "Ther's some folks standin' behind the President that ought t' git around where he kin watch'em." No matter how informed its consultants, how great its G.N.P., a country without that kind of wit is an underprivileged nation. That's only common sense...
...police, and they promptly arrived to arrest Bishop. Facing one year in jail for disturbing the peace, Bishop offered only the simplest explanation: "Didn't you ever want to shoot your TV?" Said a police spokesman: "Unusual, isn't it?" Perhaps the police in Redding do not watch much television...
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION. Director: Dr. Dixy Lee Ray. Total employees: 7,000. Overall budget: $2,500,000,000. Established in 1946 to govern development of atomic energy. Also maintains a constant watch on the atomic capabilities of other countries, detecting and identifying nuclear tests...
What gives him an advantage is his ability to spot "tells," minute tics or mannerisms that telegraph an opponent's hand. "Sometimes," he says, "Ah watch the vein in their neck or wrist. Some players, when they get a big hand, get those veins just a-pumpin'." With more accomplished players, tells are harder to detect...