Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the concert, Grasfield, whose full day ofwaiting paid off in front row center seats, saidthat Elvis had been well worth the wait. "It wasthe best concert we've ever been to," Grasfieldsaid. "I would have come at 9:30 [Thursday] night...
Actually, no wait a minute. Maybe. No, actually, yes. NO. MAYBE. YES. Three words. What did they mean when used as rhetorical bludgeons to render final verdicts on other words that came before or after them because of the manic tyrannical musings of the Hitlerian author...
...huge pain in the neck to check your baggage in an airport these days. Checking luggage usually entails at least a half-hour wait on line at the departing end--only to be told that you have waited on the wrong line and have to wait another 45 minutes to check your bags. It also entails at least another half-hour wait at the arriving end waiting for your bag to come out on the local rotissomat or conveyor belt...
...Europeans feel under pressure to make up their minds quickly on Gorbachev's proposals. U.S.-Soviet INF negotiations resume in Geneva on Thursday, and the U.S. does not want to keep Moscow waiting long for an answer. A NATO policy-planning group will convene this week in Albuquerque to begin mapping a coordinated response. Policy planners hope to reach agreement on a European position by mid-May, mostly because they think the U.S. is in no mood to wait beyond then. Some fear that the Reagan Administration wants to hurry into an agreement that would restore much of the luster...
...material is totally subliterate raving. In his latest HBO concert, Share the Warmth, he offered pungent comments on everything from Iranscam to Lucille Ball ("A 75-year-old woman performing slapstick comedy -- is that funny to you?"), along with hapless autobiographical asides. "I lost my job," he whimpers. "No, wait. I didn't really lose my job. I mean, I know where my job is still. It's just when I go there, there's this new guy doing it." Underneath the shrieks and stammers, a shrewd comic mind is percolating...