As he watched bits of paper dancing with the effect of friction, he almost discovered electricity.
Later that week, as he watched a news report about Medicine Hat, Mr. Evanson smelled a rat.
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He sounded almost stoic as he watched his own belongings escape from the lower level of his home.
In Washington his farewell address was somewhat listless, and he looked drawn as he watched his successor inaugurated.
This roundabout path no longer made as much sense as he watched the market meltdown while in the middle of graduate school.
"Most of these people are very much unemployed, " said Hatcher, as he watched the marchers in front of the bank.
He said he felt justifiable anxiety as he watched the crane part, which weighs several tons, being hoisted over his building.
David Woodward, the British Petroleum executive in charge of the pipeline project, worried as he watched the revolution unfold on television.
Harvey said he "was blowing it foul" as he watched it travel.
Mr Christopher was a confirmed Democrat, his convictions formed in rural North Dakota in the Depression as he watched his father deal with farmers' foreclosures.
He had a stack of evaluation forms next to him and, as he watched the game, he was charting and grading every throw that Daniel made.
Craft tried not to think about his previous misses as he watched the white numbers on the clock tick down and squared up to decide the game.
Wigan's stopper was eventually beaten and he stood motionless as he watched a Cahill header fly past him, only for the post to come to his rescue.
And for Ms. Vanacore's 29-year-old son, Michael, it happened at the height of the storm, as he watched a distant electrical transformer explode into flames from his neighbor's fifth-floor apartment.
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Ivory Coast international Drogba had been spotted with a hot-water bottle as he watched from the dugout during the opening half but it did not take him long to get warmed-up.
"We could have saved so many more people with these guys, " remarked a film student as he watched the French set up tents and begin treating a growing line of wounded.
"The government here gets a lot of money from the U.S. federal government, " Heinrich Tavai told CNN as he watched members of his Lofatonoa Pentacostal Church help in the clean up.
As he watched his neighbors' belongings and chunks of nearby homes float by, he laments "poor Charlie" whose boat next door is smashed repeatedly into the carport ostensibly there to protect it.
He was in tears as the judge described what had happened when he was left alone with his daughter as he watched the football match while her mother was upstairs having a bath.
My friend William of Atlanta felt guilty at the very thought of having his dog, Jerome, euthanized -- even as he watched his faithful companion of 12 years endure a dramatic, two-year decline.
"It's a real continuity of what she has done in the past, even if it is different because times have changed, " Pene says as he watched the second women's show from the back row.
"Pakistan needs a strong government that can take strong decisions, " Mr. Sharif said as he watched the results stream in on TV in his Lahore headquarters, with cheers by supporters outside growing louder with every new projection.
In it, Mr Obama describes how the plan was prepared and carried out, what was going through his mind as he watched it unfold, and the secrecy ahead of his announcement of the result on 1 May.
Reinhart, a former Motorola executive, was on the losing side of the processor wars in the 1980s and 1990s as he watched Intel's industry-standard chips beat out companies selling incompatible chips, like Sun Microsystems, ibm and Digital Equipment.
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Much of the rest of his testimony consists of his saying he never saw Mr. Clemens with steroids, needles or performance-enhancing drugs and never thought as he watched him play that Mr. Clemens was cheating with steroids or HGH.
"That's nuts, " said Toan to his chief financial officer, George Paz, as he watched his company's stock price jump 40% on news that Express Scripts planned to open an Internet drugstore to compete with much-hyped startups such as drugstore.com and PlanetRx.
As the storm struck, he watched in astonishment as a large boat washed up on his deck.
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