Word: waited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comment on a report that Mexico was trying to sell bartered German goods to other Latin American countries. Mr. Kluckhohn was told to come back in an hour. When he went back, accompanied by a U. P. man who was after the same story, he was told to wait while the U. P. man was called upstairs. When Kluckhohn tired of waiting, he started to leave. Two guards grabbed him, hustled him off to the Interior Department where he was told he had 24 hours to get out of Mexico...
...instances. It permits a child to inherit from a father who dies before the child is born. It calls abortion murder. Mrs. Wilson also added an argument: "The doctor's bill started long be fore the child was born. . . . The cost of supporting a child doesn't wait until its birth." The board of Tax Appeals, lacking a precedent to go by, reserved decision...
...gene, which, by affecting all the genes, speeds up the rate of evolutionary change. It may be due to this single "pacemaker" gene that the evolution of higher organisms has required only hundreds of millions of years instead of billions, as it might have if organic changes had to wait on time and chance for changes in thousands of genes...
...Christian thinking much realistic pessimism had made itself felt. Christian Century, a thoughtful and influential organ of Protestantism, had lately declared that the churches today are in a "time of waiting," a time in which "the church does not know how to act; yet has not learned to wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...
...high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly publishing scheme: limited editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls: "I've got a good thing...