Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woman. When he gave Pearl the new camera he had made, Rocco-La Rue told Pearl to go to Brooklyn and follow the jewel woman on her way to work. For Pearl the subway ride was more thrilling than anything she had ever read. She went over her instructions -wait until the train reaches Manhattan's Times Square Station, then shoot the picture at hip level, and beat...
Said one Socialist Deputy: "If the Communist Party decides to take over France, they can do it by telephone." The Communists were not prepared to do so at once. They preferred to wait and undermine the last vestiges of sovereign government in France. France, said Koestler, "has become a Troy, with the wooden horse standing on a pedestal in the market place; the children pat it on the nose, and the grownups, who know better, do the same, with an embarrassed laugh, pretending not to hear the ominous noises in its belly...
...sets today are black & white electronic, and many experts contend that in the end some sort of electronic method will be universally adopted for colors. It is up to FCC to decide whether color shall be introduced now, with mechanical television, or whether it must wait on all electronic development. Until FCC makes up its mind, few want to buy a television set, quite apart from the cost-from $225 to $2,500, plus a minimum $45 installation...
...killing of 10% of humanity . . . with atomic bombs might not destroy civilization. But the production of abnormalities in 10% of the population by gene mutations induced by radioactivity may very easily destroy it." Destruction need not be immediate; mutated genes are insidious skulkers. They may lie in wait for centuries in the germ plasm, spreading by intermarriage through the population. Then, when they get their chance, they kill the child in the womb, or burden it with physical or mental defects...
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). This is the first U.S. recording of Prokofiev's thundering new symphony, one of the major works of recent years. It is a compelling performance. Record buyers, however, may want to wait to compare it with Serge Kous-sevitzky's soon-due Victor version, since it was Koussevitzky who introduced the Fifth to the U.S. (TIME...