Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still bothered by two items of tournament atmosphere: the click of cameras and the spectators who jingle pocket change. "The change-jinglers," he complains, "always wait until you reach the top of your backswing, then there's a silence like a kitchen clock stopping. It wouldn't bother me if they kept right on jingling...
BartÓk: Concerto for Orchestra (the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). The last to be recorded and possibly the finest of the late Béla Bartók's last great works. Fritz Reiner makes the wait worthwhile. Recording: good...
...Mahoney, "or are we going to take action which will maintain the demand . . .? On every hand you find evidence of popular desire for things which are not being supplied . . . But you find also that because of inflation, people's needs are outrunning their income. Shall we just wait...
This is a forehint of Stalin's general position on war: to use it (or any other convenient lever) to the full in furthering revolution, not just to wait until, after the war, the classical Marxian conditions of revolution arise...
...first confused days, the military facts of the invasion had been wildly exaggerated. Actually, the invading force numbered scarcely 300, including 100 tattered, malaria-ridden Nicaraguans. They had occupied the border village of La Cruz, then sat down to wait for the internal uprising that never came...