Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They also score who only stand and wait, discovered Winthrop's baseball aggregation yesterday, as they gracefully accepted six Adams walks in the sixth inning and strolled away with the ball game, 8 to 5. Court Wood hurled all the way for the winners, while a parade of four pitchers took the mound for the Gold Coasters...
...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
...trouble of parking; for the aged, infirm or overweight, the chance to see a movie in comfort. For everyone, there are snack bars (with car service), rest rooms, fresh air and, in season, mosquitoes. And proprietors are still innovating: last week, one Tennessee drive-in added a while-you-wait laundry service...
...billion dollar Flood Control Act signed by President Roosevelt in December, 1944, 400 million was carmarked for the Missouri River. Since all construction was to wait for the war's end, there was still a chance that MVA could be set up to do the administering. Murray brought his bill in to the new Congress in February, 1945, but there it was effectively snagged in a web of hostile committees. On the outside, opposition to MVA was sparked by private power companies, the coal industry, and conservative Mid Westerners fearful of what was termed "New Deal socialism...
Although there are few students who will wait for a week after their last exam in June for its return, there could be an improvement next year in the case of the February exams. The number of readers should be increased so that more attention can be paid to each paper and so that the process can be speeded up. The paper could thus be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is handed in. No increase in cost would he involved, since most departments pay their readers per paper. The instructive value...