Word: waited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three aides last weekend routinely handed over their passports at the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint near the Berlin Wall; there a squad of gray-coated Grenzpolizei, the Communist border guards, brusquely barred their way. Kohl had crossed the Wall several times in the past, but this time he was forced to wait at the checkpoint for an hour and then was told that his visit was "undesirable." Although the Bonn government protested that the East German action was in violation of three treaties, border guards then prevented two other West German members of Parliament from entering the East. At the same time...
...public has only four more days to wait to see the contents of the University's files on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial...
...listening to the Bells of the past but at the same time drawn on to his private Dreamland that was his alone, which they neither understood or could affect, from which his own voice told him he would leave soon, that it was not his time. Dreamland would wait...
...services and witness the proceedings (and, who knows, he might have - he sort of believed in those things), he would have swelled in the wonderment of tribute. But then he would have tip toed around and bussed Muriel, winked at his friends and told everybody to wait a minute. A few tears, O.K., he appreciated that. But what a lucky guy he had been, what a life he had led. Every day a joy, every week an adventure. "Come on, let's celebrate," he would have said...
...million in 1976. Responding to public interest in CB, the Federal Communications Commission in July of that year authorized new 40-channel sets that could be sold after Jan. 1, 1977. Hy-Gain and other makers slashed prices on the old 23-channel sets, but the public preferred to wait for the new models. Result: Hy-Gain had to buy back from dealers $12 million to $14 million worth of 23-channel equipment. It converted many of those to 40 channels, says Andros, but by that time the market was saturated. Hy-Gain's sales were cut in half...