Word: bided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?, the last and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd offspring. As countless amused concertgoers and record buyers know, P.D.Q. is the perpetrator of such neglected works as Concerto for Horn and Hardart, Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, and the oratorio The Seasonings ("Bide thy thyme, now thy subscription's through...
Both were compelling truths. It has always been a question of when, not whether, the Senator would attempt a Kennedy restoration. Until very recently, it seemed that he would bide his time until 1972. The tradition of party loyalty, the immense difficulty of unmaking a President, the risk to the unmaker, the fact that he is only 42, the knowledge that many Democrats who would be happy to support him later would oppose him now-all these factors militated against a Kennedy move in 1968. His strategy all along had been to take a position slightly to the left...
Bundy advised students to bide their time for now, preparing for a career connected with government. But he cautioned those who planned administrative or political careers to avoid arrogance. Rulers must always keep in mind, he said, their accountability to the general public, and their "sympathetic membership" in the public...
...Ewing may have to bide a wee longer before the 1707 Act of Union making England and Scotland one nation is dissolved. National Party members number an insignificant 60,000 of Scotland's 4,800,000 inhabitants, but they have doubled in strength each year since 1963. Their growing following is symptomatic of the stirrings within the realm that 19th century English Clergyman-Critic Sydney Smith dismissed contemptuously as "that garret of the earth, that knuckle-end of England, that land of Calvin, oat-cakes and sulphur." After dour decades of stagnation, the Scots are surging forward with...
...well-turned knee, and confessed himself enchanted. The lord looked further, and saw a dark-haired damsel with a violin in her lap. Much smitten by the woman, who was proficient enough to play in the Sydney Symphony and pretty enough to model, the lord determined to bide his time but to renew the acquaintance once they were back in Merrie England...