Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with that left of his it has become a catch word in boxing. In spite of the fact that I held the title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight so I had to wait until Jefferies took it away from him in order to get another shot at the Championship. I was ten years older than Jefferies and hadn't been fighting for four years. It was a 25 round bout. Up to the twenty-third round I had the edge...
...Sheriff Robert H. Braun of Allegheny County ordered the police to disperse all groups of pickets. Meanwhile, in Ohio the Powhatan Mining Co. informed strikers that they must either pay rent or get out of the company's houses. The Union, disheartened, settled down to a long, long wait. The operators, sat back, hoping, if not expecting that the Union would smash itself...
...King Alexander of Jugoslavia ordered his special train to wait with steam up, night and day, in the station at Belgrade, and finally set out for Bucharest...
...This music is by another countryman, aged 34, who had lately lost his mother. This is not church ritual but the inner feeling of people like ourselves. Come, let us understand." They wanted to stand up and cheer at the intermission after the third movement, but he bade them wait, with a gesture, until the tender parable of mortality should be rounded with the exalted parable of resurrection-"Blessed - are the dead which die in the Lord." They waited, meditated, applauded thoughtfully, gave Conductor Furtwangler a wreath and went home full of peace instead of excitement. Perhaps they would...
...Fines for talking in class, gum-chewing, untidiness swell the total but violated grammar is chief source of revenue. Like any system, there is a defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...