Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours away. Drill after drill broke. Doggedly, the workmen tried a pneumatic saw. Over the loudspeaker, the screech of their drilling sawed like a file on taut nerves. Finally at 6 o'clock Sunday night they asked that the microphones be turned off. There was a paralyzed wait that dragged on to two hours...
After 14 months of hundreds of hours of interviewing and thinking and writing by 52 members of a Special Committee on Education, the "Poskanzer Report" has arrived. The newest analysis of the current Harvard education is well worth the long wait. It represents in one neat package both the sentiments of a sizeable sampling of undergraduates and the synthesizing and creative thinking of an alert and acute committee which wanted to find out what was wrong or right with this education...
...there was a boat crossing the Atlantic with black aboard, we'd follow its progress across the Atlantic, and wait for it to dock. If we heard it was at Liverpool, some of us went out to meet the trucks on the way from the docks. We begged the drivers not to stop even for a meal on the road, but to rush the black to the factory. It was terrible, desperate...
...Paris, Rita Hay worth watched Aly Khan finish next to last in a horse race for gentlemen jockeys (gibed the railbirds: "Trop d'amour"). She also announced that they would get married "within four weeks. I wish it could be sooner," she added demurely, "but we have to wait...
...wait long to find out. First on the program was Juilliard President William Schuman's Symphony for Strings. Riviera critics, hearing it for the first time, found it "purely scientific music," but noted that "among a sea of dissonances there are hidden some real beauties." Then they were assaulted by Oklahoma-born Roy Harris' Third Symphony; its abrupt ending, with a savage blast from the whole orchestra, left the audience gaping (muttered the perspiring tympanisf. "For this kind of thing I should have six arms"). When the audience recovered, they gave Harris' Third long and generous applause...