Word: waited
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...even as our small-world omni-accessibility reduces our identities to IDs, and you into u ("While-U-Wait"), our coordinates multiply daily. Not long ago, one of my oldest friends gave me his number in Tokyo, his office number in Tokyo, his home fax number, his office fax number, his home and office numbers in Hong Kong, his fax numbers in both places, a 1-800 number for his voice mail, his mobile number, his mother's fax number, his office's fax number in London, his E-mail address--and the toll-free number for calling his voice...
Perhaps Dartboard just misses New York these days. We can't wait until Thanksgiving to take a breather and plunge into the cradle of neurotic civilization. But at least this weekend we can pretend, as we vicariously screw up personal relationships, kvetch to shrinks, boil lobsters and just generally make the world a crazier place...
...adds that the longer an applicant has to wait for an interview, the less likely their chances of getting accepted...
...again. Chuck Yeager, the enduring symbol of flyboy coolheadedness under pressure, broke the sound barrier again, in an F-15. It was a farewell sonic boom for the 74-year-old, who has retired from military flying. "I just decided to go out on top, rather than wait for some doctor to ground me," he said. Not that grounding would be all bad. The following day, a British pilot broke the speed of sound in a land vehicle...
Goodwin explains in the book's introduction that she originally intended Wait Till Next Year to be the coming-of-age story of a Brooklyn Dodgers fan--a follow-up to her role in Ken Burns' documentary on baseball. Discovering her love for the Dodgers was inextricably entangled with her childhood as a whole, she realized that the story would have to take on a larger dimension. She set about the project, then, as any diligent historian would, collecting documents and photographing and contacting nearly everyone who lived in her neighborhood when she was a child. "My intention to write...