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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Margaret faced a real ordeal-a New York press conference. She never looked better, was natural, frank and gay. The reporters were charmed but blunt: Whom would she date? "I don't know-I'll have to wait until they ask me." "What about your love life?" "Absolutely none, except music-at the moment." Well, what about the President's recent remark that he hoped to hand down his gold-headed walking cane to a grandson? "I think Daddy was a little short of something to say at that point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What About Love? | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...this point your first small burst of energy is over and you retire to your chair and wait; when the fish bites the bob and the flag are pulled into the water and begin waving vigorously. Then you have to unlock the fish and rebait the hook. "Bobhouse fishing," a popular variant of this sport, requires a little hut which you erect over the hole so as to keep warm while watching the red flag for action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Schusser Finds Bliss In Other Sports | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

Some 5,100 students shuffled methodically through the semi-annual registration process at Memorial Hall yesterday. Contrary to early expectations, no jam-up in the steady flow of undergraduates occurred during the joint registration hours of 4 and 6 p.m. when all latecomers filed through without wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5100 Students Registered for Spring Term | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

...this experience of birth and death that he takes Baby and heads for the saloon at New Jerusalem. There, as he knows he must, he meets the stern but just sheriff, a short jail term, and, of course, the banker's daughter-who seems willing to wait for him. The sheriff (Ward Bond) gets temporary custody of Baby, a foresighted arrangement, since with all the sentiment lavished on him, the tot is clearly going to grow up to be a very tough citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Above all else, Stuffy Mcinnis emphasized that the secret of good defensive play is teamwork, and that the pivot of and infield is its first baseman. His part of the program was purely defensive baseball, no Mcinnis' theories on how to hit a baseball will have to wait until he holds his first Harvard practice session in March...

Author: By Donald Carsweli, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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