Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, troops were still descending on isolated villages at night and murdering the local leaders. Writes TIME Reporter David Martin, who returned from a four-day tour of Burundi last week: "The cowed, fatalistic Hutu continue to expect to be taken away and put to death. They seem to await their fate passively, as did the Jews in Nazi Germany...
Judge Frank J. Murray found the offer unsatisfactory, and Popkin was handcuffed and removed to a detention cell in the Federal building to await placement in the Charles Street Jail. His only reading material there, he said later, was an old Life magazine article about Daniel Ellsberg...
...frightened by the prospect of a future world run by apes. In the next installment, to be released later this month, the chimpanzees' destiny is fulfilled anyway, as Zira and Cornelius' son Caesar leads a revolt of the simians, who begin to build their own civilization and await the arrival of Charlton Heston. the famous astronaut whose visit was described in Episode 1 . . . Anybody who is confused-or thinks that he has wandered into a children's matinee-has not been following one of the most successful movie series since the progeny of Frankenstein. Twentieth Century...
...past and present Bruin giants has begun. It annoys Walton. "Jabbar was -and is-Jabbar," he says. "It may be 20 years before somebody like him comes along again." In fact, it is too early to tell if Walton is better than Jabbar. A valid comparison may have to await Walton's entry into the pro ranks. Clearly, he will command a huge salary. But Walton appears unmoved by the prospect. "Playing pro ball doesn't mean that much to me," he says. "Sometimes it seems the pros don't have as much fun as they could...
...primary-election night in Chicago, but what was the matter with everybody? Why no festivities, why not the usual arm pumping and back thumping? The hordes of loyal Democratic Party workers who gathered in the Sherman House hotel to await the returns were uncommonly solemn and silent. Ward bosses did not barge exuberantly into Mayor Richard Daley's tightly guarded inner office. They slunk in sheepishly or stayed away altogether...