Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the middle of the war, well behaved Londoners have patiently queued at recognized bus stops to await their chance, in order and decorum. To its friends, queueing up is a symbol of British fair play; to its enemies, a sign of genteel regimentation typical of the new British welfare state. Either way, only the vulgarest opportunists ever sought to bypass the queue by climbing aboard the open rear platform of a halted bus between stops. Last week, however, once respectable middle-aged businessmen and elderly ladies were kiting after stopped buses like hounds on the scent...
Zachariades carried his campaign against Ploumbides right up to the end. After Ploumbides was found guilty and confined to a sanatorium to await his execution, Zachariades broadcast taunts at the Greek police: "Why does Ploumbides live? He will be taken secretly out of Greece to reap his reward for betrayal of the Communist Party...
...Carroll E. Mealey. former Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue, await ing trial for tax evasion...
Reaction in Vermont to Novikoff's refusal to testify came almost immediately. President Borgmann announced that Novikoff would be relieved of his teaching duties to await a formal investigation by the trustee-faculty committee and Governor Lee Emerson promised a thorough study of the matter...
Treasures in Wait. Diolé believes that "the future of archeology lies in the sea." Certainly many wrecks, some of them stuffed with well-preserved art objects, await the diving diggers. Those that lie near the shore in clear water are apt to be damaged by wave action and madre growths. Those that lie deeper or near the mouths of rivers which cover them with silt are better preserved, but are also harder to find and explore. Archeologists, Diolé thinks, should be taught to dive...