Word: waited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides reporting the gas crunch and truckers' revolt, TIME correspondents, like other citizens, also had to find ways to live with those crises. Levinson says he had to wait three weeks for his building's management to find a parking space for his personal solution to the gas crunch, a bicycle. Beaty got so tired of feeding his gas-guzzling (10 m.p.g.) truck, he now plans to "leave it forever" at his ranch in New Mexico. Then there is the plight of Atlanta Bureau Chief Joe Boyce, who was recently transferred from San Francisco. Recounts Boyce: "The moving...
...Congressmen who seem at last to realize the severity of the situation?partly, perhaps, because they too must wait on gasoline lines in Washington?are scurrying to introduce energy bills of all sorts...
Unlike wine, great poems do not require aging. But they must wait for an audience to grow up to them. While this process takes place, another pleasure is promised. Mirabell foretells a concluding sequel, when the angels themselves will speak. Since Merrill, 53, already writes like one, it will be hard to wait for what they have to say. NATURAL HISTORIES by Leslie Ullman Yale University; 53 pages; $8.95 hardcover, $3.95 paperback
...will rave about Steve's. It is quite a trek to Somerville, but Steve's is worth the half-hour wait on line. At Steve's you can design a frozen edifice of delicious made-on-the-premises ice cream and m and m's, fruit, whipped cream, coconut and other nuts, crushed Heath Bars, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and the quintessential maraschino cherry. If you aren't drooling now, you will be after you've waited in the round-the-block lines just to get in the unpretentios little store with the salt-rock ice cream mixers...
Like Nixon, President Frankling discovers that he cannot protect his lies. For one thing, a crewman on the yacht can blow his story. But unlike Nixon, this President does not wait until it is too late. He confesses on television, promising not to seek re-election but pleading to be allowed to finish his term. Clearly, Ehrlichman believes Nixon could have saved himself by making a similar confession before he became fatally entangled in his tapes. Ehrlichman probably is right...