Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that there is method in all mysteries, and that it is discoverable. It obeys, reasonably, what is called the "first law of wingwalking": "Never leave hold of what you've got until you've got hold of something else." Faith, by definition, is a leap. It must await its verification in another world...
...committee said it would buttress its findings in 40 volumes of testimony and evidence to be issued this spring, but it sent its preliminary report to the Justice Department with the suggestion that further investigation is warranted. A spokesman there said Justice will await the full report before deciding what to do. The best guess: Justice has little desire for yet another assassination inquiry...
...Shah will await a vote of confidence from the Parliament Saturday before possibly departing on a trip abroad, sources in Iran said. According to the sources, the Shah will appoint a regency council to exercise power in his absence...
...Journalist Tom Wolfe and accepted the '70s as the "me decade." Wolfe's term has been useful, but anyone who imagines that it is definitive has swallowed a dose of glib chic whole. The discovery of the insuperable self-centeredness of human nature did not await the '70s. Neither did the national habit of self-improvement, which was going strong when Public Man Ben Franklin was its high priest. Broadly, the premise of the "me decade" view is that great numbers of people are disdaining society to pursue existence as narcissistic massage buffs, om-sayers, encounter groupies...
Still, Dales and Fitzgibbons did get a glimpse at the world of big-time collegiate golf. Now they can put their clubs back in the closet and with a melancholy backward glance await the spring...