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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuesday, 1,434 districts, of the total 1,950 in question, had complied. Officials are pleased with these figures; judging by what happened last year, the government can probably expect compliance from over 95 per cent of the districts, counting latecomers who will undoubtedly wait weeks or months before they sign their forms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School Desegregation | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...under-rehearsed and shoddy, and only Kaplan appears to have a voice. Deitch, in two songs, twisted through the jagged motions Mayer gave him, clearly listening to a different drummer. Mayer's conception is strong, his control is weak. Good Woman is a brilliant show that still needs rehearsal. Wait a week...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: The Good Woman of Setzuan | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...fact, the Island has been to Iceland"); (and the mountain to Muhammed?). Despite Miss Travers' sweet disarming mysticism, which occasionally peeps out from behind the Mary Poppins syndrome ("One doesn't invent anything, you see; ideas are dredged up from goodness knows where--they're there abiding, lying in wait..."), there are a few gems, among them her recollections of the Irish poet A.E. (George Russell) ("He took me under his wing and licked me into shape as a mother cat her kitten") and her suggestion that Christopher Robin may have indeed have been a bit light on his feet...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: The Island | 4/30/1966 | See Source »

...with industrial possibilities is going for $1,000 an acre. "This has taken on the dimensions of a national land lottery," insists William H. Scofield, the Agriculture Department's top real-estate-research expert. "A few lucky owners will realize handsome returns. Thousands more will have to wait until cities really need the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farms: Fat of the Land | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

Living year-round in this wretched tourist town is a gang of resolute ne'er-do-wells who wait for the swinging summer months to con the vacationers. Leader of the group is Tinker (Oliver Reed), a street photographer and sex mechanic, who snaps pictures of new arrivals, his way of tagging every new bird on the scene. He and his cronies nest down with most of them, though their conquests seem singularly joyless. Typical, for Tinker, is one giddy pickup who starts nattering about love the minute she gets her clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: British Beach Party | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

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