Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trumans wanted to spend Christmas at home-and home was Independence, Mo. Bess and daughter Margaret had already left for Missouri; the President could hardly wait to fly there on the morning of the 25th...
...discreet curtains of the cafes, crowds jam the tables drinking wine or coffee and eating little plates of grilled shrimp or fried baby octopus tentacles. Silent, grey-coated policemen stand discreetly in the background with little to do. Order is so perfect that Spaniards-against all their temperament-wait for the green light before they cross the streets...
Since science can now distinguish the incurably sick from the curable, mercy killing is justified-so goes the chatter in cocktail bars. The naked, woolly-haired Nuba tribesmen who live in the Otoro Hills, deep in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, did not wait for the cocktail-bar moralists; the Nuba have been euthanasians since way back. Once they are sure that a tribesman is possessed of a djinn (evil spirit), they bump him off. Everybody (in the Otoros), of course, is quite certain that djinns inhabit the bodies of the lame, the deaf and the dumb...
...with the same girl; and when you say attaboy, you mean either bravo, get at it again, or a member of an air transport auxiliary corps. After consulting the dictionary, Danes would have no trouble following the English dialogue of such Hollywood hits as Himlen kan vente (Heaven Can Wait), might tackle the best-selling Der gror et Trae i Brooklyn in the original...
...sure to bring "one dustpan, one mop, one broom." Cardigan wanted its students (sixth through ninth grade) to know that they would have to use their hands as well as their heads. There were other schools where the boys also had to make their own beds, wait on table, clean their rooms. But Cardigan's chores gave city kids a taste of the country. By last week, heading home for Christmas, Cardigan's 27 youngsters (aged eleven to 16) were old hands at milking cows, plucking chickens, dressing hogs, chopping wood...