Word: waited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under way on a factory that will employ 900-about three times as many men as there now are in town. Yes, Government agencies helped, but what really did it was the willingness of the people to invest in their community, and their unwillingness to sit slackly by and wait for the Government to do something for them...
...digested the pictures, digit by digit, and "developed" them by translating the numerical values into the correct shades of light to be projected onto a photographic film. All told, Mariner was programmed to take and transmit up to 21 such pictures of Mars. But excited Mariner engineers could not wait for the first transmission to be completed before they sneaked their first look. They processed the half picture received by the Johannesburg and Madrid tracking stations even before Goldstone, which had taken over tracking when the others lost contact, could supply its half of the tape...
Flying under wartime conditions is predictably difficult. Because civilian travel is banned at night, all flights must be crammed into daylight hours. At Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport, the company's planes must queue up on the runways and wait their turn with long lines of Vietnamese Skyraiders and U.S. jet fighters, revving up for missions against the Reds. But the company has compiled a fair record of promptness and safety (one crash, in 1962), and its cabin service is noted in the Far East. First-class passengers dine on steaks, French wines and cheeses, served...
...November. Ships were icebound at their moorings, and tons of perishable produce piled up on the docks. Even the most seasoned local merchants panicked. Not canny Russell Sage. At giveaway prices he snapped up three of the crippled, empty sloops, stacked them with cargoes, then settled back to wait. Sure enough, the freeze was a fluke. The ice melted overnight, and Sage sailed off for New York where he made a $50,000 killing. At 24, he operated a fleet of riverboats and a private moneylending business, was a bank director, city councilman, and creditor to two of New York...
...sense of an integral relationship between the wild arguments over the semantics of the phrase "to light a kettle" or a disputed penalty at a soccer game, and the actual dramatic situation of the play. These outbursts are the logical result of the tension which arises from the interminable wait for the victim's arrival. But the Loeb production does not make the audience conscious of a mounting tension...