Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that doesn't mean you have to like it." Real-life flashback: when Ford was about young Indy's age, he entered a junior high school where, he recalls, "the favorite recess activity was to take me to the edge of a sharply sloping parking lot, throw me off, wait for me to struggle back to the top, then throw me off again. The entire school would gather to watch this display. I don't know why they did it. Maybe because I wouldn't fight the way they wanted me to fight. They wanted a fight they could...
...Wait 'til next year, Barry...
Young Parent can barely wait to break out of Medford, Mass., during the late '50s. Outwardly he appears to have been quite ordinary: an altar boy who liked to plink at bottles with his .22-cal Mossberg. Yet his mind has been jump-started by books, especially Dante's The Divine Comedy. "It was not just the blood and gore," he tells a friendly parish priest, "but that the people in Hell seemed real; the ones in Purgatory and Paradise were wordy and unbelievable...
Even simple things can become rather difficult on the phone. Although Eric is a sailor/FOP leader/athlete, he can't seem to master the use of call waiting. One conversation went like this: "Wait, I have to answer the call waiting. [presses button] Hello? Oh wait, I'll try again. [presses button again] Hello? This isn't working. [presses button again, accidently hangs up on both friends] !#$%&)*(*." And then both callers dial back again at the same time...
...decided what changes, if any, to make in the framework for a start treaty that was all but agreed to by Gorbachev's and Ronald Reagan's negotiators. But the Administration's central theme is reasonably clear. In essence, George Bush proposes to stand pat and wait for Gorbachev to make the next move -- and probably the one after that and the one after that -- toward reducing tensions. As one senior American official puts it, the idea is to "let Gorbachev keep coming to us, making concessions, playing to our agenda...