Word: await
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where he was allowed a quick steak dinner at one of his favorite restaurants, Berman's Chop House. Immediately afterward, he was escorted to the Wayne County jail to be bedded down in Ward 512 with nine other prisoners. Early next morning he was taken to Chicago, to await hearings on his contention that his conviction for jury tampering was obtained with the help of illegal wiretaps. So went a rare glimpse of the outside world for Jimmy Hoffa...
...reassurance, the pair try the ritual of childhood games-Parcheesi, Chinese checkers-then break off even this relationship. Chris teaches Ellen to shoot. At last all they share is the gun, as if the final game were to be a game of kill. More and more, the birth they await seems a kind of impending death...
...plea for a new trial. "It is the feeling of this court that the jury was right," he explained. "I find no reason to change my mind now." Sirhan smiled, shrugged his shoulders and was taken to San Quentin Prison's death row. There he will await the outcome of lengthy appeal proceedings. Defense Investigator Michael McCowan quoted Sirhan as saying: "Well, now the real battle begins...
Three days of disruptions and bloody racial battles, the burning of the student auditorium and "the intrusion of politically motivated outside forces" persuaded Gallagher to quit. "A man of peace, a reconciler, a man of compassion must stand aside for a time and await the moment when sanity returns, and brotherhood based on justice becomes a possibility," said Gallagher. Other presidents of public colleges, equally subject to racial strife, could only regard his defeat with foreboding...
...race for ratings would seem to be a matter of interest only within the industry. Yet each spring Americans await the final results in much the same way that they await the results of an election: as participants, they want to see which entries they have made the favorites. This season, for the 14th time in as many years, CBS held a slim numerical edge. CBS, by its own calculations (Nielsen ranks shows, not networks), won 20.3% of the audience...