Word: await
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this we are really touching on the great present crisis in Western culture. We are saying when that culture mends its own spiritual fences, all will be well with the Near East, and not with the Near East alone. The deep problem of the Near East must await the spiritual recovery of the West. And he does not know the truth who thinks that the West does not have in its own tradition the means and the power wherewith it can once again be true to itself...
Grisly punishments await all undergraduates who fall to pay inflation-bloated term bills when they fall due-Monday. Those who muster the funds before 2 p.m. should pay at the Harvard Trust Company. Others who care to play it closer to the line can pay in Lehman Hall...
Under the full impact of this blast, Justice Kenneth O'Brien awarded her $1,000 for lawyer's fees and a $125 weekly temporary alimony. Doraine crossed her legs prettily for the photographers and, with a confident smile, went off to await the trial she had thoughtfully requested...
...theme was "Plunder at home, blunder abroad." |Instead of being a responsive instrument to the people's will," he stated, "the government imposes its will on the people... Instead of looking trustfully toward it for enlightened leadership, the people apprehensively await the next official directive, the next arbitrary restriction, the next capricious bureaucratic regulation. In short, we have stood by complacently while a concerted effort was made to scrap the time-honored system of government by laws, in favor of government...
Eventually, Dr. Donaldson hopes, man will learn how to raise salmon in "farms" near salt water. When the fingerlings are released, they will reach the sea quickly, dodging the many dangers that await their wild cousins on their journeys down long rivers. When they return from the sea, grown to full salmonhood, they won't have to waste their strength and flesh on battling the rapids. They can swim right into their home farms-and into tin cans...