Word: bided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, speed is one thing at Le Mans - and survival is another. The Ford Mark IVs were obviously faster, but could they outlast the Ferraris? Gambling that they could not, Ferrari Team Manager Franco Lini ordered his drivers to hold back, bide their time, and wait for misfortune to hit the Mark IVs. The gamble almost paid off. One Mark IV went off the course, got stuck in sand and never got out; another lost its rear hood, had to pit for repairs and dropped far behind. Then there was Mario Andretti. Running second in the No. 3 Mark...
Robinson's second place was the most spectacular of the other Crimson performances. Starting in the outside lane from an unstaggered start, Sam was forced to bide his time until the gun lap. Then he shifted into passing gear and caught everyone but Army's Henry Farrell, who led all the way and finished...
...Socialists grumbled bitterly, but Nenni urged them to bide their time. "If there's going to be a government crisis," he told a meeting of his party's central committee, "it's not going to be caused by us." Nenni has his eye on a Cabinet post in a new government; causing a crisis at the moment would be irresponsible, for Fanfani this week goes off to visit John F. Kennedy, and in a fortnight Harold Macmillan arrives in Rome. Fellow travelers in the Socialist high command were willing, even anxious, to topple the government...