Word: waited
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...Wentzell said that even if there are more crowds, the wait for a machine will be substantially shorter...
...shouldn't have to wait too late, even if we do get a crunch time at noon," Wentzell said...
...revised training curriculum emphasizes ground fighting, joint locks and dodging punches and kicks. An officer's initial attempt to grasp a suspect's arm has been replaced with the more flexible "C grip," a loose grab that does not tend to provoke an angry response. They learn to wait for backup so they can use "team takedowns" to apprehend a suspect more easily. Recruits are taught how to "talk someone into jail," says Sandy Jo MacArthur, the department's human-relations sergeant...
Like beauty pageant contestants, the would-be hosts of the 2004 Summer Olympics ? who spent around $100 million strutting their stuff ? will be spending the holiday weekend in an excrutiating wait for the judges' verdict. All but one of the delegations from Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town will go home humiliated and out-of-pocket when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland next Wednesday. Here they will announce the winning venue for the first games, technically speaking, of the new millennium...
...Except...Wait a minute...Could I see those orders again? That him, in this instance, is a her--Lieut. Jordan O'Neil, who is played by Demi Moore, muscles aripple, attitude aflare and buzz-cut hairdo a sight. She is, to be strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I. Jane should probably be called Swabbie Jane since it is the Navy SEALS that O'Neil is trying so painfully to join. She is also traveling a few years in the future when, the movie's makers imagine, feminist pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve...