Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady flow of students in and out of the basement emporium yesterday, splitting into four lines which made the longest wait about twenty minutes as opposed to last year's fiasco which found hopeful fans shivering on Quincy Street sidewalks for upwards of two hours...
...than 1,500,000 bolivars ($450,000) are wagered every week. To play five-and-six, the hopeful buy forms at four bolivars each, fill in the names of the six horses they select to win in the six races held every Saturday at the Hipôdromo, and wait for the miracle to strike. If the six horses win, the successful picker may get or share with other winners as much as 400,000 bolivars; if five win, he gets a smaller amount...
...heads down the Atlantic flyway bound for Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take the Mississippi Valley, where the heaviest concentration of gunners (almost half the nation's 2,000,000-odd duck hunters) wait for them. The heaviest duck traffic (33%) is found on the central flyway-over the Dakotas and Oklahoma to Texas...
...Will Wait? Some readers will agree with Thornton Wilder that although such writing may not really "elucidate" anything, it contains an interesting insight. They will agree that it is typical of Americans to be impatient, to move on rather than to stay put, to "make money" rather than earn a living in the closefisted way of the French peasant. If the ordinary reader cannot wait while Miss Stein circles about such ideas, that goes to prove her point...
Tragedy, 1947. In Manchester, England, Sarah Kimpton just couldn't wait to cook a precious beefsteak, took a big bite out of it raw, fell down-dead...