Word: bided
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...even those sitting in the seats reserved for students don’t always understand that The Game—or any game, for that matter—isn’t a black-tie gathering, at which attendees quietly bide their time before cocktail hour. They don’t quite realize that the range of appropriate reactions can include sitting on one’s hands as Yale endures yet another blunder, but might also include “cheering” and “standing...
...State selection in Oregon last year, agrees. “I’m discovering what’s expected and trying to do what’s asked of me,” she says. Harvard’s first years don’t expect to bide their time on the bench, but to push their elder teammates by improving in practice...
...Fans bide their waiting time by entering to win Sprint phones, MTV memorabilia, and a dinner with the cast members later that evening at Brother Jimmy’s. For the dinner, Emily W. Porter ’04 is chosen out an overflowing box of contest entries. The Burberry-clad Harvard senior is visibly surprised. “Honestly, I just came here with my friend. I am very shocked,” Porter says. “Free food is always good. They better pay well with all those endorsements...
...month grace period in which you don't have to pay anything, you have to time things carefully. Consolidating early can bring your respite to an early end. But acting before it expires can save you more than a half of a percentage point in repayment. So bide your time. Then pounce. --With reporting by Cybele Weisser
...mutation of al-Qaeda?s approach in Europe wouldn?t have to happen fast. In fact, security experts in Europe and Israel have suggested that, given the military pressure in Afghanistan and the police surveillance in the West, al-Qaeda might well want to bide its time for the next couple of months before launching another dramatic attack. Quiescence is no cause for relief. The history of Islamic terrorism may be short, but it has already established a pace of deadening patience...