Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would depend on the work of the proctors and the interest of the students in each entry. The elective plan would give freshmen control of their own affairs, plus representation on the Council at the beginning of their first year. With this system, classes would no longer have to wait until their sophomore year to take part in student government...
...that mean the denial of patronage to Dixiecrats? Let's wait, the President said, and see how the thing works out. In one respect it had worked already; Truman had passed up crusty old John Rankin's man for postmaster in Columbus, Miss. There was nothing to be gained by buttering up Rabble-rouser Rankin...
...purses and delicate chinaware, but few can afford them. The Ginza's humbler stalls have stacks of hardware and kitchen utensils, but still at soaring black-market prices. Chubby new autos (toyoda toyopetto, or "pet cars") chug along streets once monopolized by occupation vehicles-but most Japanese still wait in dreary queues for rickety buses...
...Wait," said his companion, "I've heard about Luce, but who was Briton Hadden...
This proposal is fine as far as it goes. But the Faculty should not wait the full three years before it considers broadening the plan. There is no reason why concentrators in the other Humanities and the Social Sciences should be excluded from foreign study if they have some particular interest in going to Europe and if suitable courses are available abroad...