Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which went bust in 1971, may be less pleased. They will get the proceeds from the stock sale, but those will fall far short of clearing the $300-odd million in debts that the company ran up building advanced-design aircraft engines. Payment of the rest will have to await a settlement from the British government, which nationalized the jet-engine operation...
...Michigan, 18 persons institutionalized under the criminal psychopath statue still await release. Since 1968, when the law was repealed, 258 patients have been released. The state authorities considered the freed "criminals" cured to the extent that they could cope with society. Psychosurgery had not been employed, only traditional therapy methods...
...body were Picasso's widow; her daughter by her first marriage, Catherine Hutin; and Paulo, 52, Picasso's son by his first marriage to the Russian dancer Olga Koklova. After the 1 10-mile journey, the mahogany casket, without ceremony, was placed in the chateau chapel to await the building of a mausoleum...
...bonds, he bought twelve-year-old Rita ("Jackie Lee") Flynn of Bolingbrook, Ill., from her mother and stepfather, Rita and Fred Flynn. The happy trader and his 5-ft., 100-lb. blonde bride-to-be then headed for South Carolina, where girls can marry at 14. They planned to await Jackie Lee's equally content stepfather, who intended to fly in and sign consent papers stating that...
...much of society treats the aged as an undifferentiated group whose only function is to await death. The author took one feisty woman to pose as a pro spective resident of a retirement community. Here, purred the salesman, "you are free from worry. We have a security patrol, 24 hours a day, just looking after your welfare so you can sleep in peace." Replied Mrs. Duffy: "Thafs exactly what the man said when I bought a plot in the cemetery...