Word: waited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is little to do but wait until morning, which comes soon enough: 4:30 a.m. You move out en masse along a forest trail lit only by the lights of an occasional T.V. crew and the high intensity bulbs that circle the plant. The sun comes up over the tidal marsh just as you reach it, a moment much too glorious. People joke about it, and the allusions to solar energy come one after another...
...skirmishes continue, so the police come out from behind the fence, and now what do you do? You can't rush by policemen, you just don't do that, and besides, would it be non-violent? Would everybody follow? So you retreat to a high spot and wait for the tide to come in while you hold some meetings...
Sunday, just because you have to do something, you decide on another assault, this time through the woods and across a road. It's chaos and no one knows who is going where, and so everyone goes the wrong place, down a suicide alley where the police wait with two cans of Mace apiece. A little fence is cut, a few people even reach the other side, and pretty soon you're retreating backwards, trying to doctor Mace victims and to keep singing and hold hands and walk-not-run, and the police are right behind you. They have their...
...perhaps 6% in 1981. No matter how high the cost of curbing the price plague, concludes Greenspan, some unpleasant medicine taken now will be less painful than other, tougher remedies forced upon the nation in the future. Says he: "The costs will be even more intolerable the longer we wait to come to grips with this problem...
...Pittsburgh Pirates will play Game 1 of the 1979 World Series Tuesday night. However, they will wait at least until tomorrow to find out where...