Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his tipping world, but I would like to get a little of that free publicity from TIME or even the New York Times, for I feel that my theories are fully as spectacular and "flesh-creeping" as Mr. Brown's, and I don't want to wait until you editors go floating out the upper windows of Rockefeller Center in your striped pants...
Jeez! Jeez! Across the U.S. last week, the seesaw race had baseball fans quivering. Cleveland motorists had to wait for their gasoline until absent-minded attendants finished listening to another play on their radios; business in downtown movie houses slumped 25%. In Boston, scalpers asked and got as much as $30 for a pair of tickets. One New Yorker, his nose buried in the box scores, tripped over a fire hydrant and banged his head hard enough to need stitches...
...accepts as part of the job the autograph seekers who accost him in hotel lobbies and restaurants. He doesn't mind the kids so much, he says-it's the adults: "They always wait till you are about to put the steak in your mouth...
Sophomores will have to wait at least two weeks more for their already once-postponed '51 Red Books. Editor Donald M. Maynard '51 announced yesterday. Threatened printers' strikes this summer, coupled with a temporary shortage of funds, has shifted delivery from last Monday, registration day, until Saturday, October 16, at the earliest...
...such a check-off procedure would have slowed down the ticket lines (speeded up by the addition of a third window) to last year's all-time low. And last year the HAA was jammed with complaints of the four hour wait necessary to procure tickets...