Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great-grandchildren. "When I had my children and grandchildren," she remembers, "I was about as busy as they were. I never had much good of them. I have more time now for my great-grandchildren." But with it all she keeps sending her pictures to Manhattan galleries: "If they wait long enough I get up a big batch of 20 or so, but they're apt to phone before then and ask what I've got done...
Except for a family party in the evening, Grandma's birthday next week will probably be like other days. "I got in the habit now of waking up at 6 o'clock," she says. "I hear my son up, splittin' the kindlin' wood downstairs. I wait till I'm sure he's got the coffee made, then I come down about 7. I just eat a piece of bread for breakfast, then I carry some coffee upstairs, and paint. In the afternoon I take a nap so when evenings come and the young folks...
...Father Told Me." With patience and understanding of the Nizam's vanity, India might still win its minimum demands without bloodshed. India can afford to wait until the Nizam's playboy son, the Prince of Berar, ascends the throne. The Prince is far less interested in wielding power in Hyderabad than in caring for his 180 polo ponies. And the Prince is no friend of Razvi and his Razakars, who might be less troublesome if not backed by the government. Last week, in a pique, the Prince resigned his nominal title of commander in chief of the Hyderabad...
...Bottle. During a speech to a country audience, Munoz once stopped to take a swig from a Coke bottle. "That's our man!" somebody yelled. "He drinks ,from the bottle!" "Wait a minute," Munoz broke in. "If you vote for me just because I drink from the bottle, you'll start voting for everybody who drinks out of bottles...
...life and many of them I dislike after a few months, but this one I keep coming back to see." And as war memorials go, De Strobl's monument was indeed complex, harmonious, and impressive. Even so, Hungarians who look forward to a "second liberation" can hardly wait to topple it into the Danube...