Word: waited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...employ them. Perhaps that channel will be provided by Arthur Costa e Silva and by Latin America's new awareness that it must act now-and together-to solve its problems. But optimism of the sort that has drenched Brazil in the past like blinding sunshine must wait on surer signs that, having reached the take-off point, the giant of the south will really take...
...commander of the military, he finally accepted the dinner invitation of a particularly insistent congressional deputy, he arrived at an opulent apartment on Copacabana beach, watched silently after dinner while his host showed off a gallery of possessions: 50 suits, 25 pairs of shoes, bulky silverware, art treasures. "Wait till you see my wife's wardrobe," said the deputy. "No thank you," replied Costa, "I have seen enough." Within the next few days, he canceled the deputy's mandate and suspended his political rights "for ostentatious and conclusive evidence of corruption...
...Overpower. Andretti has his critics, who think that his schedule-and his tactics-are suicidal. "Sometimes you should wait to pass," says Parnelli Jones, "and Mario often doesn't." Two-time Indy 500 Winner Rodger Ward says that Andretti "has to learn patience; he tries to overpower the competition." But maybe Mario can. He is the early favorite to win next month's Indy 500 in his Ford-powered Dean Van Lines Special; he also will drive a Ford Mark IV sports car at Le Mans in June and, if Sebring was any test, he will probably...
Lacerda attacked the Conference for not dealing with immediate needs of Latin America. "The real question," he said, "is can the people wait ten years?" Short range questions such as more aid to education -- which Lacerda strongly supports -- and better prices for Latin American exports were ignored at Punta del Este, he asserted...
During the fight to keep the oil from the Torrey Canyon off the beaches, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson reported to Commons last week, "We did not wait to settle matters of finance, compensation or legal liability." Now that the crisis is abating, he continued, "the government is urgently considering the question of claims." Britain, said the Prime Minister, intends to sue the Union Oil Co. of California for damages due to the wreck of its supertanker. If the suit ever gets to court, it will further complicate what is fast becoming not only the most costly maritime...