Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, certain pitfalls await any clergyman, regardless of stature, who steps into active direction of a secular institution. Since he will be a Protestant, he must realize that many Catholic and Jewish students will have already pitched one strike past him. Thus, he will have to do more than smother the natural desire of any clergyman to propagate the creed he has been trained in. He must go out of his way to assure that any "religious guidance" he dispenses represents the lowest common denominator of credo--in fact, no more than the same social gospel PBH has represented...
...British Isles and the Low Countries. Dikes crumbled. Whole islands, villages, cities were swept underwater. Ships sank at sea and capsized in ports-even at docks. Rivers writhed and burst their banks. Over a million fled. Other thousands clutched rooftops or twirled crazily on rafts and small boats to await rescue or death. Other hundreds died-too swiftly to be counted at once...
After 21 distinguished months as full commander in Korea and close to 42 years in the Army as cadet and officer, rugged, flat-flanked General James Alward Van Fleet got the order that all soldiers await when they pass 60: report to Washington preparatory to retirement. His successor as commander of the Eighth Army: Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor...
They say in total truth: "We aren't going anywhere," and ask why, then, they must patrol and probe and await the sniper's bullet or the shell that may find them on their hills, and why they must be there at all. They do not yearn to leap from their lines and drive across the snow-whitened enemy hills. Far from it. But they do yearn for an end of this war and they would rather fight to end it than await an ending that never comes...
...rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards and lashes them to the mast. But Blackbeard's dark deeds finally catch up with him when his own men, led by First Mate William Bendix, bury him up to his neck in the sand and leave him to await the incoming tide (in real life, Blackbeard was shot by a British lieutenant on the high seas...