Word: await
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survived dangers from its own corruption during the Renaissance to physical attack during the Italian Risorgimento. Whatever threats Christianity will face under Pope John's reign will not necessarily be greater than the invasion of the Lombards from whom Gregory the Great (590-604) saved Rome. Whatever tests await Pope John's diplomacy will recall that behind him lies the record of Hildebrand (Gregory VII, 1073-1085), who kept Henry IV of Germany waiting barefoot in the snow for three days and established the spiritual authority of the church over the temporal power of monarchs. And no schismatic...
...long as the trailer itself"), complete with loudspeaker and the recorded works of John Philip Sousa. When the trailer pulls up in a Sixth District town, Chamberlain scrambles out, sets up a sign proclaiming: YOUR CONGRESSMAN is HERE NOW! Then he goes back to his trailer office to await the passing parade of every sort of voter with every sort of problem...
Full explanation of the Pioneer's two-day venture into space must await careful analysis of the data on its flight. Overeager public-relations officers pushed into print a statement that Pioneer had shown that the radiation belt around the earth falls off sharply from 4 roentgens per hour at 5,000 miles to 2 roentgens per hour at 17,000 miles, and that this meant that future space wayfarers should not have much to fear from radiation. But the project's scientists promptly warned that such apparent discoveries may prove to be the result of instrument failure...
...Formosa instead. ¶When the Nationalists evacuated the Tachen Islands off the coast of Chekiang province in 1955, the islands' civilian populace was given the choice of evacuation to Formosa or acceptance of Communist rule. Of the islands' 18,500 inhabitants, exactly 19 chose to remain and await the Communist administration...
...York; after long illness; place not revealed. Jacob Lomakin was kicked out of the U.S. in 1948 for his role as the heavy in the case of Mrs. Oksana S. Kasenkina, the Russian schoolteacher who jumped from the consulate window in Manhattan (after Lomakin had confined her there to await involuntary return to the Soviet Union) and was picked up, seriously injured, to recover, become a U.S. citizen...