Word: waited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait! I thought again. I'll go another step further. I'll light the whole kiosk on fire...
Nevertheless, Wolfreys says the group cannot "sit back" and wait for the situation to correct itself...
...making an 8-track promotional CD (loosely entitled Jessica Tardy Live--Please Book Me) with the aim of distributing copies all over Nashville, where she hopes her destiny as a star will be realized. Until that happens, she says, "I'm just going to go there and starve and wait tables. I'm not afraid to be really poor. I just have to be singing...
...Like most things these days, it began innocently in an e-mail message. "Wait a second," I typed. "Who is this Ellis guy, anyway? B4 we interview him I'd like to know. =@)" Admittedly, the "B4" and "=@)" were lame and unnecessary--I was towards the end of a brief and disastrous experimental period with special e-mail shorthand and parenthetical-math sign-smiley faces. But the electronic response did not critique this visual jargon; instead, what I received was a nasty and merciless attack on my cultural skills and knowledge...
...more time trying to "communicate" than ever before. I'm sure the library checkers who once saw procrastinators scan the periodicals shelf now love to gape at the e-mail receiving line that winds around the lobby. The checkers whisper to one another: "They used to work; now they wait...