Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brunette wig, wearing glasses and heavy makeup and speaking very bad German-despite the fact that she is German-born. As soon as each check cleared, Irving claimed, Edith withdrew the money and "took it across the street" to another, unnamed Zurich bank, where she deposited it to await Hughes' instructions for pickup...
...bomb the North Vietnamese infiltration routes in Laos. In the U.S., public opinion is electrified by a series of shocking South Vietnamese defeats. The doves of the Senate take wing once again. Half a dozen Democratic presidential aspirants declare Vietnamization a farce, demand an immediate US. pullout, and gleefully await the President's humiliation in the primaries...
...South Viet Nam, Saigon forces took up defensive positions, primarily astride infiltration routes and around major cities and military bases, to await a sizable flare-up in Communist activity that is expected to peak at the time of the Tet holidays, which fall in mid-February. Meanwhile the North Vietnamese moved mobile missile launchers right up to South Viet Nam's northern frontiers, and the air war continued. The U.S. last week conducted its seventh "protective reaction" strike of the year against SAM sites in North Viet...
...highly wishful estimate made in January of a $1,065 billion gross national product for calendar 1971 was out of reach; it is now expected to be $1,050 billion. By August, Nixon had an outline of potential controls ready. But Congress had adjourned and Nixon wanted to await its return in September before acting...
...Johnny Carson kidded him about it. Next Doc showed up in a zippier suit; more kidding. Soon the routine evolved into the ritual that is now familiar to millions of viewers: an ever more outrageously garbed Doc leading the band through the opening theme, then turning to await the gibes. "That looks like Roddy McDowall's diving-board cover," Carson will say of a white jumpsuit trimmed in rhinestones. Or, of a suede and satin set of Western threads, "I wouldn't wear that to fondle Randolph Scott's saddle horn...