Word: awaited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell. Laden with 520 tons of cement for Eilat, the Greek ship under charter to Israel sailed from Haifa on May 24, commanded by brawny Veteran Skipper Kosta Koutales, and manned by a crew of ten. Next day, in routine order, it dropped anchor in Port Said to await permission to pass through the canal. Far from being granted permission, Captain Koutales was not even allowed ashore to ask for it. Almost two weeks later the shipping company's local agent managed to get the required permit, but it was canceled almost immediately. The agent was told that...
...newborn that may result from the same sort of stress, the doctors suggest, are absence of a collarbone or forearm bone, displacement of the heart, Mongolism (TIME. Aug. 13) and water on the brain. But confirmation of this theory and of the protective effect of vitamins must await further research...
...someone to toss some acid. Storekeeper Gondolfo Miranti relayed the request to Bakeryman Domenico Bando, who sought out Joseph Carlino. Carlino dredged up Hungry Hoodlum Abraham Telvi to carry out the attack. Telvi was given a bottle of sulphuric acid, stationed on a Manhattan side street and told to await a Mr. Marshall, whose wife wanted him burned because he was unfaithful. Go Between Miranti shadowed Riesel to Lindy's Restaurant, spotted him for Telvi when the columnist strolled...
Test of intentions. "A chance for a fresh start," Sir John Harding called it. Before the fresh start could be made, however, the sincerity of E.O.K.A.'s truce proposal had to await a week or two's test. The next step would be for the British to recall Greek Cypriot Leader Archbishop Makarios from his lonely Seychelles Islands exile...
...tense Suez Canal crisis, the U.S. last week took a firm stand for moderation. In one of the most unusual gambles in diplomatic history, the President and the Secretary of State proposed to confront Egypt's President Nasser with the pressures of moral law, then stood back to await the consequences...