Word: await
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adenauer is unable to attend Commencement exercises on June 16, he will have to await another invitation from the Corporation before an honorary degree will again be available from the University...
...flagrant" parking violations, and then local citizens, led by Councilman Edward J. Sullivan, demanded that the University permit only seniors to have automobiles at school. Together these two events have seemingly jeopardized the undergraduate's car-owning privilege. At the very least they have caused the student to await with apprehension the Administration's next decision on the parking problem...
...When food runs low, hunger destroys human feelings, levels rank, reduces commander and commanded to animals. By unspoken agreement, the commandant steps aside, and the mess sergeant ("The Dipper") takes over, inexorably dividing the remaining slices of bread. Each day the survivors eagerly await Adam Ember's count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs them that "there is no Hill 317"-in headquarters files, that is. Adam Ember, half delirious with hunger, has a vision of a huge...
...plans, which await Faculty approval, were made at an organizational meeting of the International Activities committee Monday, following the results of an informal Committee poll of foreign students. The poll indicated that the students were dissatisfied with present opportunities for meeting American students...
Valery's shocked parents accepted and crossed into West Berlin one day last week to confront their runaway son. Valery listened skeptically to his mother's pleas and to his father's warnings of the grim fate that would await him in U.S. "concentration camps." At the end of 45 minutes, the boy, nervous and angry, stalked out of the room. Valery's mother, close to tears, asked permission to talk to her son alone. Valery came back. He was calmer then, but no less intransigent. After ten minutes, Mme. Lysikov returned to her husband...