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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tackle the Israelis once more-and invite another humiliation. As one Russian military adviser recently told an East European ambassador in Cairo, it will take "a generation" for Egyptian military skills to exceed Israel's. Whether the Egyptians or their brethren in other Arab lands will want to wait that long is, to say the least, questionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Moscow's Murky Role in the Middle East | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

Laird pleads guilty only to wanting a strong bargaining position: "If you give the Russians anything before the talks begin, then either the negotiations never start or they drag on for several years without accomplishing anything. The Soviet Union will wait to see how much they can get before they sit down." McNamara, when he argued for arms control and against certain weapons projects, often provided a counterweight to civilian militarism on Capitol Hill. Today the balance is tipped sharply so that opposition to the military, particularly in the Senate, threatens to go to the opposite extreme. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE POLITICIAN AT THE PENTAGON | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...other case in which a Negro was awarded damages from a white law officer in Mississippi. "It's not going to bring back my sight," said Arthur, who now hopes to go into the grocery business, "but it will help." In any case, he may have to wait some time to collect, since Arterbury plans an appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damage Suits: Something More than Sympathy | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Stuff and nonsense, or sheer blarney. For Moynahan, though he is currently disguised as an English professor at Rutgers, is really one of those nonstop Irish-American storytellers, the kind that hold Boston barrooms at bay with: "Wait! Wait, boys! And then there's the one about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in the Stacks | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...enthusiastic support by moving in that direction. A recent decree exempts new Greek-flag ships from taxes until they are ten years old. Shipowners even have priority on international telephone calls; they get through from Athens to London in a few minutes, while ordinary Greeks often have to wait for hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: The Other Greeks | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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