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Word: waited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus Newt Gingrich said he wanted to wait until all the facts were in; Trent Lott said that the allegations were "very serious" but that he'd been in Mississippi for two days and wasn't sure about the details. The political calculation among Republicans could be that a wounded Clinton who serves out his term is better than an incumbent President Gore who has put all this ugliness behind him. It was a measure of the President's free fall that his own former chief of staff Leon Panetta told the San Jose Mercury News that if the allegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Truth or...Consequences | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...worry about the six-month wait until football training camps start again. Sure, it seems like this annual Death Valley--punctuated only by the oasis of the draft in April--will, like this metaphor, never...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Incompetent Ferrets Entertain, but Super Bowl Even Better | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

...wait. The truth does matter. It remains possible that Bill Clinton is not such a creep after all. And it remains possible that Clinton is more of a creep than you imagine. Just consider the distance between the following scenarios...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: D.C. Confidential | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

Astronaut John Glenn used to dread going to NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. As a rookie pilot in the space agency's Mercury program, the 40-year-old Marine would periodically be required to strap himself into the tiny pod of a spacecraft simulator and wait for technicians to set it spinning in three dimensions at speeds exceeding 30 r.p.m. Using nothing more than a joystick, Glenn would have to bring the tumbling cockpit to heel. If he succeeded, he would continue in the program. If he failed, he could be bilged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Stuff, 36 Years Later | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...Wait a second here. The choice was a) going to Aruba, or b) hanging out with the gum-smacking queen of all time, and you picked Tonya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After The Glory | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

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