Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the twelve jurors found arrogant Douglas Chandler guilty of treason. The minimum sentence is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine; the maximum penalty, death. Solemn and mute, his two daughters, Laurette, 21, and Patricia, 18, watched him led away to wait for the court to fix his punishment...
...this time, Moische had a wife and child; with them he came to the UNRRA camp in Berlin. He did not sit back and wait for help. His world had fashioned Moische to be a black marketeer; he was a good...
Doubles-Fielder Wally Northcott, wanting to cut his son Kefford in on this easy money, entered his name on the bookmakers' waiting list of the Queensland Turf Club. Informed that there were already 120 names on the list (and only three new bookies added each year), Wally Northcott said his son could stand to wait since he was only two days old. "My son," he explained, "was born June 21st, the shortest day of the year. I figured he would be naturally lazy, so the only thing to do was to make him a bookmaker...
...forced the partition now faced was real enough. On both sides of the new dividing line, between Pakistan and Hindu India, minority groups wondered what to do. A Moslem tonga (two-wheeled carriage) driver, who had lived 20 years in Delhi, thought of moving to the Punjab. "I will wait and see what happens," he said. "If there is any trouble, I will send for my mother, my sister and my two buffalo, on my farm in the United Provinces." But it would cost him $50 to move to the Punjab-and the meager amount he collects in fares barely...
Isaac had a manager willing to wait. He told Isaac: "Plug, play and practice; I'll talk about you." The first year he got seven concerts, the second 14. Then he was signed by Master Plugger Sol Hurok...