Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California landscape around him an evolving vision of the Apocalypse. And in songs like "Jamaica Say You Will," "Our Lady of the Well," and "For a Dancer," Browne populated that world with hold-outs, who stand apart from, or at most knee-deep in, the main-stream as they await the Deluge which will "wash this planet clean like the Bible said." Hold-outs are not always female, nor is their chastity always physical; that particular earth-bound purity embodies the amorphous, essential faith Browne is still defining with this sixth album...
Many will await the publication of the guidebook on how to commit suicide [July 7] and many will use its information gratefully. As a volunteer in nursing homes, I hear prayers nightly pleading to die before morning...
...York Islanders first reached the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup playoffs in 1975, a scant three years after starting from scratch as an expansion team, hockey insiders dubbed the strong young squad "the team of the future." Fans all over Long Island sat back to await the glories sure to come. But for the luckless New Yorkers, the future was always in the future...
...quiet since 1973, when they stopped registering young men for the draft and fired 6900 of the department agency's 7000 employees. But since President Carter woke up to the Soviet threat--and decided that registering people for the draft not only would show the Kremlin what "grave consequences" await it but also might grab him a few primary votes--the people at SSS, all 78 of them who work in the Washington office, have been pretty busy. After all, it's not every day that you gear...
Circuit Judge Laurence Smith ordered each of the arrested firemen to serve 20 days in jail, pay a fine of $300 and another $16 a day for the meals they were served behind bars. With all the city cells booked up, many of the fire fighters would have to await vacancies before they could serve their time. By week's end Kansas City had handled more than 265 alarms without loss of life, but arson in the city had risen alarmingly. At that point, a judge ordered the reinstatement of the 42 dismissed men; to universal relief, the fire...