Word: till
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served enough coffee to keep Rip van Winkle awake and nervous till the end of time. Working Riker's, Cord's and other short-order, all-night stands in Manhattan, she was a competent waitress, but often she served people with her face turned aside. Once when a group of actors came in, she fled to the basement, hid and wept-for Irene Dailey really considered herself an actress...
...Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials, new and old rich. The after-dessert throng carried on in grand style till dawn and on. By then the hardy stragglers were surfeited with champagne, whisky and sturgeon eggs-plus beer for the inelegant and unlimited milk for nondrinkers. When the fireworks, dancing (to three orchestras) and tippling (at four bars) were all over, many of the elite-ranging from the Duke...
...imperialism," said Red Flag, Khrushchev had been guilty of wishful thinking. "Because certain imperialists, Eisenhower for one, have made empty 'nice talks' about peace, some people think he must be very much in favor of peace . . . This is an unrealistic illusion. Imperialism will never change its nature till doom. The people have no alternative but to wage a struggle against...
...after day, from east to west, scorching relentlessly. The earth cracks up and deep fissures open their gaping mouths; but there is no water-only the shimmering haze at noon making mirage lakes of quicksilver . . . The sun makes an ally of the breeze. It heats the air till it becomes the loo and then sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings up the prickly heat. It produces a numbness which makes the head nod and the eyes heavy with sleep. It brings on a stroke...
Billy almost never does, on screen or off. Inside a head that makes him look like a benevolent old bullfrog resides a restless imagination, a "flypaper memory" and a wit that ranges from the merry to the mordant. Wilder, not Benchley, was the man who first said: "Wait till I slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." He is also the author of this scathing epigram: "I would worship the ground you walk on if you lived in a better neighborhood...