Word: waited
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Unlike Stalin (né Dyugashvili), Trotsky (né Bronstein) and Molotov (né Scriabin), Zhdanov still has the name he was born with. Sharing a common root with the Russian verb zhdat, to wait or to expect, it is a good name for a man who was to ride quietly up the party escalator until he could expect (or at least hope for) succession to the biggest political job on earth. His father was a school inspector in Tver (now Kalinin), about 100 miles northwest of Moscow. Zhdanov had a better education (including German and French) than any present member...
...strength of the Kremlin lies largely in the fact that it knows how to wait; the strength of the Russian people lies in the fact that they know how to wait longer...
Until the authorities acted, the lepers could afford to wait. In Burma, social outcasts help each other. The lepers were being fed with rice donated by cemetery workers, who occupy the lowest rank in Burmese society...
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Long Wait...
...Windowless, glass-walled and crisscrossed with chutes and conveyors, it will be the last word in department-store merchandising. Customers will be able to park their cars in the Foley garage, make their purchases, find them in their cars when finished. But Fred Lazarus has not been satisfied to wait for the new store to boost business. Foley's sales are already running close to double the rate they were when Federated took over, and profit this year is up to nearly...