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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although there are currently 623 big brothers in the Boston area, there are never enough to go around. Children must often wait more than a year before they can be matched with a companion, Ryan said...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: More Students Volunteer as Big Brothers | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

While the Houston convention was passing its National Plan of Action, a counterrally across town attracted 11,000 women, men and children into the Astrohall, and 2,000 others had to wait outside. They had arrived from far and near aboard chartered planes and dusty buses. Cheer for cheer, epithet for epithet, the "profamily" gathering easily matched the ardor of its counterpart in the Sam Houston Coliseum, and its rhetoric was substantially greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What Next for US. Women | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

Harvard had to wait almost six minutes to tie the score. With Friar Dan Haskins off for tripping, the icemen's deliberate, checkerboard passing eventually found McDonald alone five feet in front of the net. The newcomer responded with his first goal of the year, with assists going to pointmen Jim Trainor and Bob Leckie...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Defrock Providence Friars in 6-4 Win | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

...past the dogs sleeping on the floors, under the tables around the chairs and up and down the stairs. None awaken. We stuff our clothes into our bags. One of my sneakers is missing. It was there in the morning. One of the dogs must have gotten to it. "Wait here," my brother tells me, and he sidles out the door. I wait. Within moments a dog begins to bark. Then another, then another. The house erupts. My pale-faced brother tears back into the room, and slams the door. "He's up." We spend the rest of the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...Nothing has turned you on so far? You figure you're choosy, and I figure you're boring, but wait: there's more at the door. Saturday night at 8 p.m. Michael Cooney performs traditional American and British folk music at the Joy of Movement Center, 536 Mass Ave. Cooney, as much folklorist as musician, should put on an entertaining, varied show, playing everything from banjo and 12-string guitar to kazoo and penny-whistle. Admission...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Poet at Passim's | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

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