Word: tilling
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...excitement is pervasive. When Washington lifted the restrictions on travel to Cuba in March, Havana news boys hawking the stodgy daily Granma gleefully shouted, "The Yankees are coming!" At one store, the cashier closed her till when two Americans walked in and then escorted them to a storage area. She poured some glasses of piña, a local pineapple liqueur, and raised a toast: "Bienvenidos, felicidades...
...they haven't exactly been tough up till...
...able to defend his program against the generally uncritical questions of reporters. The President spun off his statistics and conservation "principles" with assurance. He stoutly defended his stand-by gasoline tax, as he must at so early a moment in a long debate, declaring: "I will fight for it till the last vote in Congress." Notably, he held out the possibility of gasoline rationing as "a viable alternative" if his program fell short of its goals. He pointed out that he had the power to impose rationing without congressional approval by declaring a national emergency...
...unparched humanity. Without Alpo to lure him on, Sandy proves an artful trouper even if he doesn't say "Arf." Since Annie is the sort of wholesome family fare audiences are always supposed to be arfing for, Broadway's latest tryst with nostalgia will doubtless turn the till at the Alvin Theater into a reasonable facsimile of the U.S. Mint. T.E.K...
...Wait till next year' was the old Brooklyn Dodgers. Our approach has to be a little bit more urgent. But we're getting there." He whispered tightly, "We'll surprise them." He left the ball park almost reluctantly, clearly impatient for the start of tomorrow's flyballs and line drives, celebrations and circuses...