Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kick as former Vice President Hubert Humphrey checked out of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. Three and a half weeks after an operation to remove his cancerous bladder, Humphrey said goodbye to his nurse and a crowd of well-wishers, then set off for Washington, D.C., to await election results in his campaign for a fifth Senate term. "I've had enough tests to go through 44 universities," said the Minnesotan. As for his regimen as a convalescent, bubbled Hubert: "I'll be swimming and walking, and, God only knows, I'll be talking...
...also throws in an occasional humorous remark to break up the tedium of the practice. Freshman June Kinoshita recalls Huntsman's story of the "notorious flashers who hide behind the bridges and await the arrival of the Radcliffe crew...
While his colleagues at Harvard passively await the outcome of the presidential election, Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of government, actively pursues the votes of New Yorkers in his Senate race with Sen. James L. Buckley (R-N.Y.). Simultaneously with his campaign, Moynihan retains his teaching position and returns to Harvard once a week to teach Social Sciences 115, "Social Science and Social Policy...
...range naval shipbuilding program. Newspaper reports indicated the decision could well be determined by the results of the Texas primary, where Ronald Reagan had been winning over hawkish Texas conservatives with his talk of Soviet military superiority. Although administration officials had earlier indicated that the decision would have to await preparation of the next budget, the President announced expansion of the program on May 4--three days after losing in Texas...
...they are inclined to regard their homelands with much the same fervor that American Jews feel for Israel. While people now living in Eastern Europe have generally made their accommodation with the regimes, the immigrants-and many first-and second-generation Americans - remain unalterably opposed to Communism and await, however forlornly, its overthrow...