Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throughout their work is common to both men: the tough people of this twentieth century world, the people with the inteness desire for possession, the ones who murder for money and kill for love, are the much-drooled-over "little people," the men and women who sell insurance and wait on tables. They are tough, and completely amoral, possessing an intentness and a capacity for brutality of which even the gangster is hardly capable. (In a Chandler or Cain story, the gangster is always sophisticated and generally weak.) Right now these men "constitute the ragged edge of literature," as Scott...
...temporarily, up to Congress. Secretary of State Byrnes was off for Paris, trying to crack the Big Four deadlock on peace treaties. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was guiding U.S. plans for control of the atom (see INTERNATIONAL). Poised at dead center, the President had nothing to do but wait...
...crammed neolithic cave at Montignac-sur-Vézère. Named after some donkey bones found near the surface, the cave was first explored in 1940 by schoolboys. A few pictures of it leaked out through Vichy (TIME, July 28, 1941), but detailed study had to wait until after the war. Last week scientific investigation was going full speed ahead...
...Vatican young Communists wearing scarlet neckerchiefs eyed with composure the carmine sash of 95-year-old Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, dean of the College of Cardinals, as he cast his vote. King Umberto, after long discussions with his advisers, decided to vote. Queen Marie-José had to wait in line for half an hour...
...conclude the session, a Technicolor motion picture, "Harvard Highlights of 1944-45," was shown. The film, produced by the Harvard Film Service, depicted scenes of Commencement exercises in 1944 and 1945, the College's VE-Day celebration, and the combined Harvard-Tufts Medical School Commencement. Dean Wait gave a running commentary...