Word: waited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, I suspect particularly uptight whites in the audience will search for a black in the theater- and wait for him to laugh before they do the same. This is because many whites simply don't know how to react to blacks as people yet. When most liberals hear the black-cum-white characters in Horovitz's play putting on Butterfly McQueen accents, a sign lights up in their minds saying "Racial Stereo-types. . . Gone With the Wind. . . Racist" -and the liberals freeze...
Outside candle drippings graced the sidewalk where people had to wait for traffic lights. How quickly can the government clean up the streets? It can pay more from petty cash to clean them than the Mobe can afford for the candles...
...WOULD take a hopelessly long time to convince a majority of the nation that the NLF is right, and we don't see how we can wait much longer for the war to end. The political games of 1968 pushed the shame out of our minds only temporarily-we had been licked in the streets and convention hall of Chicago, but that couldn't put us off forever. Now we are spoiling for a new fight...
They also believe that their ranks will swell only while they are in the process of making revolution. The crux of their ideology is that the revolution can't wait...
...Harvard's fall football brochure tells it all about Yovicsin's football philosophy: "Play grudging defense, and wait until the opponent makes a mistake...