Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of all this uproar many a police chief just decided to sit back and wait for the pyramids to collapse of themselves-an amateur mathematician figured it would take 16,777,216 players to keep a club going for 25 days...
...mayor and the village clerk were both away when sleek, dark-suited Willem Johannes Janse van Rensburg rolled importantly into dusty Hennenman in a big car marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
...Sylvio. Margaret objected with howls: on hearing the news, mother reported, Margaret "turned on the tears" and kept them at full flood for two days. Finally calmed down, Margaret read a new set of lines to the press like the trouper that she is: "I had hoped mother would wait until I am 14 and grown up. But since she wants to marry now, I'm glad it's Don. I like...
...with all his noise, everybody might have missed it." He took it around to Supreme Records, a small company that was looking for what Harvey calls some "catchy novelties." A sweet-singing minor songbird named Paula Watson recorded it. When the big record makers heard it, they could hardly wait to get it on wax. Last week...
Just a Minute, Please. In Gushing, Okla., Mrs. Everett Holland asked the cabdriver who had driven her to Yale Hospital to wait, reappeared two hours later with her newborn...