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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Valentine, You're one in a million...So you'll have to wait in line...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Massacre of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...cards. I bought them for relatives, lovers, friends, foes and fiends alike, then I filled them all out and the envelopes too (making up zip codes randomly as usual). Then the phone rang. When I came back I sealed the envelopes and, ignoring my roommate's urgent pleas to wait, I dashed out to mail my Valentines. You know what he wanted to tell me? While I was on the phone he took the cards out of the envelopes to read them--then he replaced them randomly into the envelopes. Now I don't know which cards went to whom...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Massacre of Valentine's Day | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...make out" tunes from the 1950s, the ones where the guys were always trying to get the girls to go ... well, if not further than they wanted, then at least further than they thought they should. Billy gets right down to business. "Come out Virginia, Don't let me wait/ You Catholic girls start much too late," he sings in his bruised tenor, his memory for details ("You got a nice white dress and/ a party on your confirmation") as sharp as his point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...Coach Stephanie Walsh does not feel the uncertainties in the start of the meet has hurt the team. She said yesterday, "The wait is bugging them but I don't think it will hurt them in the meet...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Women's Tourney On Despite Snow; Trackmen Run Today if Cadets Show | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...Ghislaine's arms are romantic and fluid," muses Ashley. "I just don't have that quality yet." She is right. But the odds are that she will find her own equivalent-or know the reason why. Her goals are strong and they are focused. "The classics can wait. Right now the place to be is where Mr. Balanchine is. My ambition is to do every role in the repertory that I have not done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Boys and Girls, but Not Together | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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