Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Click. A little boy, hating his older brother, lies in wait behind their bedroom door and strikes him so hard with a water carafe that it breaks. A gush of blood mingles with shattered glass...
...like a big fashion show," says Dana Irvin, a senior at the Springboro, Ohio, High School. "You have to dress nice to fit in, and I guess there's a lot of pressure to remember when you last wore an outfit. If you can, it's best to wait three weeks before you wear an outfit to school again." This creates double trouble for Gina and Jeanine Vermillion, twin sisters who are starting their freshman year at suburban St. Louis' Selvidge Junior High School. "Each one coordinates her own outfit because everything's got to match," reports their mother...
...Boston, wait until it's over. Until the Red Sox head to Oakland. Then you can say whatever you want for five minutes only. Because the Sox don't need you to jinx their chances of going to the World Series...
...Boston, wait until it's over. Until the Red Sox head to Oakland. Then, you can talk about the A.L East champion...
This year Harvard's Registrar Margaret Law decided to put registration on a Friday before the start of classes, rather than on the same Monday. This was done so students wouldn't miss any classes they wanted on Monday by waiting in registration lines. Oh, wait. On Monday we had to go wait in line to have our i.d. cards validated anyway. Of course, registering on Friday was still necessary because shopping period was shortened to seven days, a decision the faculty made so that professors could assign sections and start assignments sooner. Oh, wait. Seven days really means only...