Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guzman, 16, seventh teen-ager killed in street-gang violence in New York City in the past three months, fueled up already blazing feuds between Bronx street gangs. Two days after the killing, police headed off a massive outbreak of violence by nabbing ten Royal Knights allies who were waiting on a Bronx rooftop to ambush an oncoming invasion of the neighborhood by revenge-seeking Valiant Crowns. In the ambush arsenal: 20-gauge shotgun, .22-cal. rifle, two hunting knives, stacks of bricks, nine Molotov cocktails-gasoline-filled bottles with rag wicks, to be ignited just before the bombs were...
Astronomers no longer must wait for the few minutes of a solar eclipse, but can produce their own, using a technique described by Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, in a book published today...
...blanket. "Can't go through Harvard without seeing good old Schlesinger, big name you know." The blanket didn't know. "History 169, that's it." He leafed through the catalogue again, stopping at page 206. "American Intellectual History, 1789 to Present, MWF at 12, great, just great, can't wait to hear li'l Artie." Another notation...
...remain constant, Puerto Rico will catch Montana (whose growth rate is the slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...
Startled customers had to wait a few minutes to get their shirts back, but several of them stood around watching Murphy sip coffee and note the passing scene on Plympton St. Jacobson is Executive Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor...