Word: waited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World Trade Center. The twin towers, thrusting high above the rest of New York's skyline, house the fabulous Windows-on-the-World restaurant and bar. If you want to eat dinner there, you'd better have your first million along, and also a reservation. The wait list for reservations is currently somewhere around three months...
...vacation ordeal. The same recital of courses and social life is in order, with the exception that my grandmother cannot quite accustom herself to my unmarried status. She asks curiously, "How's your boyfriend?" "Fine, Gramma." "Are you getting married?" "Nooo, Gramma!" Then she concedes magnanimously that I can wait until after I graduate--preferably the day after--to marry...
...blacked-out stupor, he is bilked of his home, and gangsters lie in wait for him. The son (Ebbe Roe Smith), a touching fool-in-Christ figure, simply wants to hang onto a place that is already lost, and the daughter (Pamela Reed) plans to retrieve the loss by becoming an efficient criminal...
...Clark subcommittee recommendations, which are self-consciously moderate and "pragmatic," seem too willing to give the South African minority government another chance to make good, considering its past record. While the Senate may be content to wait to observe the effects of this half-way measure before taking another insufficient step, South African non-whites continue to live each day under the most systematically repressive and racist government on earth...
...special group of well-heeled alumni and fans comprised the "Iron Dukes." These stalwart Blue Devil supporters probably suffer the most from "tournament fever." Many Iron Dukes arrived in Providence on Thursday and decided to wait until Monday before returning to Durham, N.C. (The home of Duke) in order to enjoy an extra night of partying. Although this four-game weekend severely tested the imbibing endurance of fans, next weekend's trip to St. Louis could prove even more strenuous...