Word: waited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in a while, Harvard's timing was repeatedly off. "We were thinking too much," leftwinger Sara Fischer said after the game. "People would see someone else breaking and think, 'Should I pass it now or wait?' By the time we made up our mind, it was too late." Plays that had worked before came close to working again--then just missed. A superfluous pass or a premature shot was enough to turn likely scoring chances into blown opportunities...
...Harvard goal," the voice boomed, "their fourth of the game..." A Freudian slip? Wait 'til next year...
...maybe they would. Maybe they wouldn't understand about how someone would have to care for them. Maybe they won't wait. [Nightfall and Other Stories...
When lawyers go to heaven, and a few presumably do, these are no doubt the kinds of matters they discuss over lunch. Now heaven can wait. The American Lawyer, which served up the aforesaid juicy items this week, and two other new tabloid-format papers, are busy attending to the profession's voracious appetite for scandal, scuttlebutt and shoptalk. Unlike hundreds of established legal journals, newspapers and newsletters, which concern themselves chiefly with issues and trends in the law, the new papers emphasize lawyers per se, ad hominem and in flagrante delicto. Also how and where lawyers work, what...
...side effects after prolonged use? It is known that kindred chemicals can produce birth defects in animals. Thus the drug faces at least two or three years of careful testing before it can be marketed. Still, for those with recurring severe acne, that may not be too long a wait to be spared a lifetime of misery...