Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believers and expanded the church parking lot to handle the overflow crowds they expect when Gill returns. Since last August, especially devout members have been honored by appointment to a corps that keeps a prayer vigil in the church 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to await Gill's resurrection...
While the exact terms of the relationship await negotiations between the University and the high school, Harvard will probably provide the same kinds of services as the Graduate School of Education did in the late sixties. At that time, the University advised on curriculum and school structure, and trained student teachers who came from the Ed School to work in Roxbury schools; that Harvard-Roxbury tie weakened mainly because of the Nixon administration's withdrawal of federal funds for projects in black areas...
...come to attend the funeral. The rules of Islam's strict Wahhabi sect, to which King Faisal be longed, stipulate that a man's body should be buried as soon as possible after his death; Faisal's funeral, however, was delayed 36 hours in order to await the arrival of foreign delegations...
...ground look like great, ungainly fish, beached and gaffed. The last half-dozen B-47 bombers, or what is left of them, dip crazily, their wing tips on the ground, their engines, control panels and seats gone. Dozens of skeletal Air Force F-84Fs of Korean War vintage await collection by the scrap dealers who bought them. The dealers do not have far to travel. MASDC is ringed with scrap contractors' furnaces, where the planes are broken down and the aluminum from them smelted on the spot. The pride of yesterday's wild blue yonder becomes tomorrow...
...prints a bi-monthly newsletter, which serves as a clearinghouse for upcoming artistic events, and is involved in the never-ending search for funding for future events. The drama and dance committee, however, has never been officially proposed to the Faculty Council, and Epps says a decision will probably await Dean Rosovsky's proposed review of general education...