Word: await
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign policy and lend new fuel to the appeal of Communism in the East . . . Let us stand separately for our various truths. Let us stand together for the peace of society. Let us not do to one another that which is hateful to any of us. And let us await the judgment...
Behind the decision lay the fact that the U.S.-British-Soviet conference in Geneva, aimed at reaching a test-ban agreement with adequate safeguards against cheating, had just recessed its bogged-down negotiations until Oct. 12 to await the outcome of face-to-face talks between the President and Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Ike agreed with the State Department that the span between Oct. 12, when the Geneva conference starts up again, and Oct. 31, when the U.S. test-suspension period was supposed to end, would not give the conference enough time to make any progress no matter what...
...breaking so sharply with the traditional print, Japan's new wood-block artists have forfeited their traditional popularity at home. They had to await the coming of the American occupation to win acceptance, even now remain more popular abroad than at home. Putting a sampling of Japan's best on display, Manhattan's small Weyhe Gallery in two months sold 75 prints, 25 of them to museums and schools, last week was awaiting a fresh supply from Japan to restock its walls...
...three novels by 34-year-old Author Stacton, an American who was born in Nevada and now travels widely. His first novel, Remember Me, about the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria, was published in England, where it won critical acclaim. Most readers of the current novel will eagerly await the third, to be published in the U.S. later this month. Entitled Segaki, it concerns a 14th century Japanese monk and his search for wisdom...
...crushed the loose confederation of Etruscan city-states and razed their walls. Etruria's bizarre hobgoblin world of superstition, ritual and magic provided the folk mythology from which poets from Virgil to Dante evoked their images of Hades and Hell; its art was buried in underground tombs to await latter-day grave robbers...