Word: waited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only owned by Europeans but are also owned by Europeans but are also owned by Africans. According to the Central Statistical Office survey in July 1962, African farmers cultivated two and one half times as much land as did European farmers. By contrast in Kenya the Africans had to wait until there was an African government in power for farms to be handed over to them...
Stevenson is quoted as saying that "someone in Washington" had at first said such talks would have to wait until after the presidential election, but when U Thant tried again around the first of the year, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara "flatly opposed the attempt." U Thant was "furious," and "there can be no doubt," wrote Sevareid, "that Adlai Stevenson, who was working closely with U Thant in these attempts, was convinced that these opportunities should have been seized, whatever their ultimate result...
...alone which has kept Communist China out of the U.N." That was obvious to anyone who could count. Also obvious was the fact that what had once been an overwhelming majority of nations on the side of exclusion was now reduced to no margin at all. "Just wait until next year," jeered one Eastern European delegate...
...Episcopal bishop. He lived five years in an Eskimo village, once made a 35-day trek from Point Hope to Point Barrow by dog sled; he flies 50,000 miles a year, much of it in bad weather and to isolated areas. "Most people," he says, "wait on their islands of insecurity for the world to overwhelm them. In most of the U.S., no one has to take risks. Up here, you feel challenged. When I fly in bad weather or when I rough it, I feel that I have beaten something that was my adversary...
...Hollywood and quickly established himself as a character actor in the tough-guy tradition-a kind of punk's Bogart. Today old movie buffs still see him on TV reruns, barking at his moll, Gloria Grahame, Vivian Blaine or Marie McDonald: "I fought I told ya to wait in da car." He ran his luck through nearly 150 movie roles, but by 1941 gangster parts were declared bad for the image of a nation at war. As the clean-cut types moved in, Leonard moved out to the one medium where he could be heard but not seen: radio...