Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When twenty-five members of the Mountaineering Club withdraw this weekend to their Spur Cabin retreat on Mt. Washington and wait for the new term, it will be just another in a long series of such excursions which has marked HMC activities in recent months...
...Wait a Bit." In one of Chekhov's short stories, some city people, whom we may take as symbolic of the Western world, try to make friends with the peasants of a nearby village, only to be repulsed time after time. The last attempt is made by the mother of the family, Elena Ivanovna, who goes to the village with her little girl, and tries to have a heart-to-heart talk with the peasants. It is not successful. Here is what Chekhov tells...
...Mistress!' Rodion called out, walking after her. 'Mistress, wait a bit. I want to tell you something. . . . Live along here, be patient, and everything will work out all right. Our people are good, peaceful. . . . Don't pay any attention to Kozov or to the Lychkovs, and don't pay any attention to Volodka, he is just a fool; he listens to whoever speaks first. The rest of them are all right. They have good hearts and they have good consciences, but they have no tongues. Wait a couple of years and you can have the school...
Marshall shook hands all around, chatted a bit, thanked T.V. for his basket of Formosan shaddock and pomelo (akin to grapefruit), urged everyone not to wait in the chill damp outdoors. For a few moments he stood alone by the ramp; he seemed a trifle impatient because the Gimo and Madame were late...
Busy, social-minded University students who have been patiently waiting for telephones in their rooms or apartments since the end of the war may have to use pay booths for another ten weeks, although B. A. Dwyer, business manager of the Cambridge Branch of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company announced Friday that his office is doing "everything possible" to shorten the wait of applicants...