Word: waited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kentucky, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, some suspicious rank-and-file miners were not so sure. Said Ralph Adams of U.M.W. District 30 in eastern Kentucky: "Before anybody can say anything, I'd say they'd have to wait and see what kind of settlement it is." It will not be until the end of this week that the miners' feelings are really known...
...epochal, but reactions have been grudging. The black leaders are pressing the Prime Minister for a faster transfer of power. Britain and the U.S. insist that blacks of the anti-Smith Patriotic Front be included in negotiations, though both last week after a London meeting decided to wait and see. Neither Washington nor London is convinced Smith's formula will really provide for universal suffrage and a democratic government...
Since the '60s kids still hold relatively junior jobs, their influence remains limited. But just wait a while. Says Stephen McLin, 31, planning vice president for the Bank America Corp.: "The people from my generation are not driving the ship yet, but we can shape a little of what goes on. In a few years, we will take the helm...
...Wait. Things get worse. In New York City, in the same play, she screamed to backstage technicians about misplaced cues, not knowing that her body mike was still on. Her complaints thundered all the way to the last row. Then, in a performance of The Devil's Disciple in Stratford, Conn., she stuck a hatpin in her chest, puncturing a lung. "I wasn't doing very well, anyway," she sighs. "I just didn't understand the part." To end the list, add only three words: Gable and Lombard, possibly the worst major movie of the decade. Says...
...commercial tax base. Before the storm an estimated 40 to 60 per cent of the town's residents received some sort of public assistance. Since the storm the Federal government has declared the town a disaster area. Lining up by the thousands at the temporary relief center, the townsfolk wait for the food stamps and the Salvation Army's vouchers for heating oil supplements that have sustained them since the storm...