Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, Billie Austin Bryant stood before U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell in Washington, D.C., to await sentencing after having been convicted of killing two FBI agents. Under the law, Judge Gesell had only two alternatives: electrocution or life imprisonment. Though he declared that death was merited by the mercilessness of the deed, the judge spared Bryant's life. "It would not serve the ends of effective justice to allow the defendant the luxury of all the special attention that a capital penalty would generate," he said. Addressing the defendant, Gesell intoned: "Mr. Bryant, you will...
...Sanders Theatre affair President Pusey urges us not to be "victimized by obfusacation" but to await quietly the results of corrective actions set in motion by officers of the University. He speaks too late. We have already been victimized by the obfuscation of those who have defined this affair as a stand-or-fall test of the principle of academic freedom and have begun to file criminal charges against persons present...
...Francisco. The firm's manager, Charles Caito, says that his men took only 109 of the 21,000 whales killed in the North Pacific last year. All the other prosaic Ahabs are Russian or Japanese, who will not be affected by the ban. They must, presumably, await the wrath of their own ecologists...
Will the big detergent makers win back the affection of the housewife? Can they find a substitute for phosphates? Are enzymes doomed? As in all soap operas, the answers must await the drama's next installment...
...anything now," Sambrorski said yesterday evening. "I don't want to hedge. I have talked to the President of the University of Maine, who is chairman of the Yankee Conference. Anything that is said has got to await his words." he added...