Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children learn English, they're more likely to watch English TV, and that hurts Perenchio," Unz charged. "But he can't buy an entire election." In the meantime, Unz was lining up lawyers to defend 227 against an expected court challenge...
...joining the big boys in the still exclusive nuclear club. Pakistan, citing security fears, responded in kind. Neither country has in place any of the protective mechanisms that helped keep the superpower rivalry in check. Over four decades, the U.S. and the Soviet Union built spy satellites to watch each other's weapons, installed a hot line so the two leaders could communicate directly during crises, and negotiated treaties to contain their arsenals and reduce fears of a sneak attack. India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars in the past 50 years, have no such arms-control measures...
...Yale victory, however, cushioned the blow. Although Higdon was forced to watch from the sidelines because of a season-ending knee injury in the Colgate series, the other three seniors--McCarthy, Geordie Hyland and Doug Sproule--all took to the ice for the final time together. In fitting fashion, Sproule was the one who sealed the Crimson's victory with a short-handed tally in the waning minutes of the contest. It was his third of the season and the 17th of his career...
...reaction seldom evoked by a sporting event, especially here in Cambridge. Thousands of students gathered around any television set they could find in the wee hours of the morning on March 15, 1998--the game began shortly after 9 p.m. Western Time, midnight on the East Coast--to watch their women's basketball team make history...
...when the game ended just after 2 a.m. in Cambridge, undergraduates of all types--from the avid sports aficionado to the sports illiterate who had only wanted to watch someone from his or her house on television--poured into the streets in celebration. Students hugged and celebrated together. And for one night, the Harvard women's basketball team had united a campus in a fashion more reminiscent of the camaraderie that surrounded the student takeover of University Hall in 1969 than that of the typical Harvard sporting event...