Word: waited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Healy defended the DPW workers, pointing out that the workers had to wait for fallen trees and live wires to be moved out of the way before the plows could clear the streets...
...self-evident fact that interleague play, beginning later this baseball season, is a terrible thing for the Major Leagues. If the Chicago Cubs and White Sox have to wait 'til 2341 to be opponents in the World Series, then that's how long it should be 'til they play each other. End of story...
...with actor Alec Baldwin and seemed to support continued funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, despite the fact that House Republicans resolved in 1995 that the NEA would be put to sleep after this year. And two weeks ago came his apostate announcement that tax cuts could wait until the budget was balanced. Says a confidant: "Newt is starting to learn that you need to define victory in ways that you can achieve...
Robert Stone's fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically over the past 30 or so years. A sixth is scheduled to arrive in bookstores this fall, but the wait should be soothed by Bear and His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin; 222 pages; $24), a collection of six Stone short stories that have appeared in magazines plus a previously unpublished novella that gives the new volume its name. All seven pieces demonstrate, in concentrated form, the qualities that make Stone's novels so harrowing, exhilarating and impossible to forget...
...that proves more terrifying than he could have imagined. His French partner seems headed toward paranoid violence. Worse still is Blessington's memory of the men who sold them the dope. They had asked for "Frenchy," and Blessington, trying to appear in control, said they would have to wait until his partner arrived. "They drew themselves up around their hidden weaponry behind a silent, drug-glazed wall of suspicion that looked impermeable to reason. They were zombies, without mercy, and he, Blessington, was wasting their time." Into this "odor of menace" strolls Blessington's girlfriend, looking for trouble...