watch committee

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One was an old friend, Irina Orlov, wife of Physicist Yuri Orlov, who was sentenced to twelve years last May for having founded the first Helsinki Watch Committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to the America's Watch Committee, a New York City-based human rights group, just one of the 559 defendants who came before the tribunals in 1985 was acquitted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally the Watch Committee decided that roguish Maurice may not sing in Cardiff.

From Time Magazine Archive

Summoned before Cardiff's Watch Committee, M. Chevalier's English manager tried to argue, was sternly ordered to produce a verbatim translation.

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Watch Committee passed a bye-law, May 14, 1878, to stop the lads shouting "Mail, Mail," but they go on doing it.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.