Word: waited
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Charter Member. "Ed couldn't wait to grow up," his mother once said of him. Born on a tenant farm in North Carolina, Murrow moved with his family to the state of Washington, later attended Washington State College, where he majored in speech. After graduation, he went to work for educational organizations and in 1935 was hired by CBS. Sent to Europe to line up cultural programs, he was on an assignment in Warsaw when he got word of the Nazi Anschluss. Hastily chartering a plane to Vienna, he arrived in time to broadcast the Nazi takeover. After this...
...fewer than 1,500,000 passenger cars, ranging from the tiny Moskuich (comparable to the old-model German Opel Rekord but priced at about $4,000) to balloon-tired Chaikas that sell for $12,000. But even if a Soviet worker could afford a car, he would have to wait five years or more for delivery under current production rates. Though Kosygin would like to change that, it is obvious that it will be 15 or 20 years before Russia can develop a mass-production automobile industry and the necessary complex of gas stations, repair shops and spare-part systems...
Makaronas believes that both the royal palace and Pella's theater are buried under a hill on which the modern village stands. But diggings there will have to wait; the job would probably require the relocation of all 2,500 villagers...
...last I can understand what really ails the slum children I've been treating. Their difficulty has been one of experiencing scuffles that come too fast for their own comprehension as human beings. At least "The Cool World" has stimulated that discovery, and to be frank, I can hardly wait to tell it to the children...
...larger number of Czech buses, recently supplemented by Chinese-made trackless trolley, are generally overcrowded. People wait in orderly lines until the buses come and then scramble for the door, the conductor bodily pushing the last few persons aboard. Frequently the conductor makes the trip to the next stop hanging halfway ou the door, trying to force...