Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Executioners Wait. Though Joseph K. is "arrested," he is permitted to go on working in the bank where he is a minor official. Sometimes he is summoned to the "Court." It is held in a filthy room in a tenement in a slum district. The spectators are all petty police agents of the Court. The attorneys, judges and law students misbehave in public with the wives of the Court attendants. The law "books, when Joseph K. finally peeps into them, are filled with obscene pictures. He never can find out the nature of the charge against him. He never...
...whole $3,500,000 contempt fine, which Goldsborough had slapped on last December, if Lewis did not behave himself and show that he was acting "in good faith." The union had only been required so far to cough up $700,000 of it. The judge would wait and see how Lewis and the miners behaved themselves during the next few weeks...
Lewis did not wait long, after that. His order went out to his miners to go back. The Government announced that it would send undercover FBI agents into the coal fields to check up on their good faith...
...Wait More, Make More. The Dominion's overall rent bill will not go up 10%, after all. Landlords are dissatisfied because they must offer a two-year lease to gain the extra revenue. Believing that all controls will be off in less than two years, many landlords are gambling on no increase now, bigger returns later...
Blow Hot. In an industry noted for its highflying, Buck Rogerish schemers, and its sometimes low-grade economics, Pat Patterson, at 47, is an old killjoy. He is forever crying "Now, wait a minute," when someone wants to jump off the barn with an umbrella for a parachute. He is the No. 1 conservative of the airlines, and proud of the title. He still gets a thrill as an airliner roars up off the runway. But the thrill is enhanced if he knows that all the seats are filled...