Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts General Hospital, Arthur Godfrey had to sneak by another crowd of well-wishers to get up to his $65-a-day, two-room suite. There he settled down to await operations on his hip which he hopes will repair the effects of a serious auto accident suffered 22 years ago. Next day, conscious of his duty to his public and perhaps alarmed by a hint of bad publicity, Godfrey gave an interview to 16 members of the local press. Wearing a boldly patterned aloha shirt ("I never sleep in anything else"), Godfrey posed for pictures. He hugged his nurse...
...last tale, about an aerialist who dreams of falling and tempts fate by recreating the setting of his fall, is quite intriguing in the circus scenes. But even in 1943, much of the plot and dialogue must have been dated, particularly the fade-out with the hero promising to await the parole of his love, a reformed jewel thief. Charles Boyer, however, is debonair on a tight-rope, though he delivers even the silliest lines with a straight face...
...every Yaleman's life, there has been one traumatic experience that other people do not have. It is Tap Day-the tense afternoon in May when members of the junior class gather to await the whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror...
...owner of the Johnson Bus Lines nodded to the driver, then settled back into a seat behind his employee to await the hour and a half ride back toward Boston and Dunster House...
...wishes. Government favors can be obtained only through Rhee and this circle of his intimates. All foreign exchange allocations for more than $500, for example, must be personally approved by Rhee. Imposed to ensure the strictest honesty in government operations, this control has its drawbacks: important decisions inevitably await the President's approval, and when he is incapacitated they await his recovery. Said a Rhee official last week: "When the old man is sick, Korea is sick...