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Word: watchings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dived into the crowd which was gathered for the free barbecue-40,000 pounds of meat, and plenty of beans, cake, orange juice and Florida celery. He shook hands, posed for photographers, handed out chunks of cake, and hugged giggling women with democratic vigor. Then he went off to watch the parade, which had 127 floats, and bands, and herds of bathing beauties, many of them tossing oranges at the crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Done Up Classy in Tallahassee | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Consumer attitude has been one of complete bafflement. Is RCA's tone better or does the company merely want--to make up for the loss in time to Columbia by confusing buyers? For the present, record listeners can sit back and watch the big boys fight...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: 78-33-45-Yipe | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

...decide what part of the Ruhr's coal, coke and steel should be kept at home for the good of Germany, and what part should be sent abroad for the good of Europe. Together with a Military Security Board (representing the U.S., Britain and France), the authority will watch what the Germans make and what they do with it, check them if they get out of hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Dark Valley | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Once a month, in fair weather or foul, he leaves his home in Waban, a suburb of Boston, for a walking trip in Maine, New Hampshire or Vermont. Dressed in old hiking clothes, he stops to chat with farmers, contemplate ponds, watch cloud formations and take careful notes for his editorials. At home, he dutifully keeps up his reading (botany, ornithology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Nature Beat | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...shot toward the future. Though bristling with difficulties, they are theoretically feasible enough to merit serious investigation. If they ever do carry U.S. colors into space, they would have their military uses. Even an uninhabited satellite could serve as an observation post. While orbiting over enemy territory, it might watch behind the lines with telescopes and report its observations by television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Foxhole in the Sky | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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