Word: watching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anything horrible that could have happened happened" on these marches, Samuelian said, adding that his grandmother was forced to watch her sister being eaten alive by vultures after she had died of typhus...
...administration knows that bringing [ROTC] back means student protests," said Robert Weissman '88-'89, head of Harvard Watch, a group that monitors University decision-making. "It is appropriate to take over the Undergraduate Council office not just to say we're angry, but as a demonstration of what's to come...
...Depression sounded hokey when it was used to seduce would-be sophisticates of the '70s. "Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time" joined the fleeting body of marketing folklore and spun off into dozens of jokes. (In one, the Welles impersonator intones the line, glances at his watch and says impatiently, "It's time...
Here's another one from the NCAA files: Reports in yesterday's Globe say that the NCAA might be investigating a "special benefit" violation involving Rumeal Robinson, the Cambridge native who iced the 1989 NCAA baketball title for the Michigan Wolverines. Louis Ford, Robinson's father, went to watch his son play in Seattle, Wash., thanks to a group of local business leaders, who funded his trip. Yeah, real serious stuff, here...
Fans lined the fence by the Twins' batting cages to watch players, just a few feet away, groove their swings against automatic pitching machines. American League leading hitter Kirby Puckett (.356) whacked a few dozen balls and then wandered over to the fence to sign his name on caps, baseballs and odd pieces of paper. Puckett spends an hour or so a day signing baseball cards mailed to him by fans and sending them back in postpaid envelopes. He was joined by Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola, who pitched a 24-7 season last year. The chain link fence...