Word: await
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...termites had chomped into the wooden beams and joists, and now the building is tilting and the stairways are slanting. Eaten out of house and home, Democratic Governor Hulett C. Smith, 46, evacuated his wife and five children to his own place in Beckley, 52 miles away, there to await the restoration and to ponder the imbalance of nature that produced overfed termites and underfed coal miners in his domain...
This century is likely to expire before qualified men find Nikos Kazantzakis' true place in the pantheon of literature. His claims on greatness must await the patient perspective of time. He wrote eight novels, of which three-Zorba the Greek, The Greek Passion and Freedom or Death-are well known...
Reserves & Draftees. Before settling on the specifics of those new decisions, the President said, he will await a report from Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the U.S.'s Ambassador-designate to South Viet Nam; and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Earle Wheeler...
...shutter mechanism, started the scan platform searching with a wide-angle sensor for light from Mars, and turned on the tape recorder's power. Everything was going unbelievably well. Newsmen and families of the scientists gathered in JPL's Von Kármán Auditorium to await the cryptic reports from the primary tracking stations at Johannesburg in South Africa, Woomera in Australia and Goldstone in California...
...bases its case on the point that Morgan Guaranty made its purchases largely before the Dow-Jones ticker moved the news at 10:55. But Lamont contends the news was hardly secret by that time. As Lament's lawyer argued: "A director is not required to await publication of information in one particular medium before he joins in dissemination...