Word: waited
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...from Big Coon Creek, near the town of Skyline, in northeastern Alabama, Cedric Stephens, 13, and his father wait for two hours on a mountainside, leaning against a hardwood tree in a misting rain. Miserable hunting. Just as they are about to give it up, Cedric sees antlers coming toward...
Surely there are ways that we can think about making educational reforms. Yet purging our souls of postmodernism is undoubtedly the wrong way to go about affecting change. We'll have to wait to see whether "postmodern" will prove to be a useful and enduring literary term. But Paglia's use of the word as an expression of her own vague disgruntlement-however justifiable or unjustifiable her anger may be-does a disservice to the issue she would like to address. As a means of discussing problems within our educational system, grumbling that everything has become too "postmodern" just doesn...
...August 1976. The Reagan people in the balcony would not shut up. Roberts' Rules of Order could go to hell. The Californians on one side of the hall screamed, "!Viva!" and those on the other side howled back, "!Ole!" The convention nominated Gerald Ford anyway. Reagan would have to wait four years. I smoked three or four packs that day and, in the bluish cigarette haze of a room in the Muehlbach, wrote TIME's cover story: dreary convention, dismal story; hot, clear Kansas City summer outside. At least that's what I remember...
...negotiation in my case now revolves around the question of whether I have the time to wait for the doctors to learn more about gene therapy and TMR--the time, put bluntly, to let them experiment on other patients, not me. Then, too, I could die waiting. I'm thinking. I'm thinking...
Tough choice, right? No wonder last year's holiday season saw $1.1 billion in online sales. Some analysts tip seasonal purchases in cyberspace to outpace their real-life rivals by Christmas 2000. But you don't have to wait till then. Here's our opinionated time-saving guide...