Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfectly thrown pass, the big play is often the game-breaker in the N.F.L. this season. Often that play comes from the little men, especially on kickoff and punt returns. Many teams carry a diminutive run-back specialist on their rosters. As fearless as they are frail-looking, they await the ball amid the growing thunder of approaching tacklers. Momentarily obscured by a wall of blockers, they duck toward the sidelines in a suicidal dash toward glory. Johnson, who is the only N.F.L. player to return both a kick and punt for touchdowns this season, views his tiny stature...
...hardly a dignified leavetaking. A gaggle of Russians, the first of many such groups to run the same gauntlet last week, gathered in the hot, squalid main hall of Mogadishu airport to await an Aeroflot flight to Aden. Somali customs officials, who normally give departing passengers a bored wave-through, set upon the sweating travelers with malicious grins, demanding that they open every suitcase for an item-by-item inspection. At the airport bar, quarrels broke out as the bartender doubled the price of Cokes. A Western TV cameraman recording the pandemonium took an elbow in the ribs from...
Wine, like every other form of art and artifice, stands or slumps on manners. These new American vintages are well-trained: they do not speak out of turn. They await parental approval. They are infants. Alexis Lichine, a wine grower shipper and guru (The New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits), observes that it has taken 20 centuries for the wines of Europe to evolve. Says he: "All it takes is time, trial and a great measure of good luck." To which, in the U.S., might be added patience, faith, curiosity and quite a few dollars...
...Kosinski perceives, one must make judgments without any hope of foreseeing the consequences of the choice. To take a moral stand requires a plunge into the unknown, the acceptance of a "blind date." One must pin the carnation to the lapel, stand by the lamppost and await an indefinite fate, a handsome beauty or a dilapidated reject. To Kosinski's frustration and disappointment, most Americans would rather stay home and watch television than stand on the street corner and wait for the unexpected
...Saturday, Frankfurt instructed Flight 1231, still waiting in Ankara: "Fly back to Cologne. This is an order from the Interior Minister." The commandos returned to West Germany and left again a day later on another 707, code-named Uniform Bravo. This time they flew to Crete to await further orders...