Word: watchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighters droned over the city in formation, scaring Berliners. The four powers had agreed that there would be no formation flying over Berlin or over the Western air corridors. At the four-power Air Safety Center, the lone Russian official, who was poring over a magazine, looked at his watch, silently handed a paper to a U.S. captain sitting nearby, and resumed his reading. The paper was another protest against alleged U.S. flight violations...
...littered city rooms of Manhattan's four afternoon papers, the day was all but done. Most staffers had knocked off; the desks had released the legmen who had kept watch up at the Russian consulate. Soon the men on the Babe Ruth watch, at Memorial Hospital a mile away, could go home, leaving the watch to the morning papers. Next door to the Soviet consulate, half a dozen photographers idled. Across the street three reporters lolled in the lobby of the Hotel Pierre...
While recessed House members gathered to watch the battle, McCarthy argued with rising temper: "I have been informed that the House leaders will not take public housing or slum clearance." That was all mild-mannered Charles Tobey needed. Pointing to the visitors, he shouted: "Who is this House leadership . . . this triumvirate in the House which has the power to say 'They shall not pass...
...next day, still the victim of the villainous drug, she had permitted a man in an automobile to take her to Reed Farm. Cried Consul Lomakin: "She did not know why she went with him! . . . Many people were around her. They watch...
...student to watch was the Boston Mu seum School's Arthur Polonsky, whose sunlit Boy at the Fence succeeded in being touching without a hint of sentimentality. William Burden Jr., of Indianapolis' John Herron Institute, sent a finely patterned, authoritatively painted study of three bicycling kids. A Portrait o/Roslyn, by the. Pennsylvania Academy's Katherine Grove, showed just how finished student work can be, and the Rhode Island School of Design's Herbert Fink contributed a boy-iff-motion that few professionals would have dared tackle (see cuts...