Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arsenic sauce." At a press conference his eloquence got the better of his sense: "If we have elections on my return, I and my party will boycott them-or we will put up 25 of the most advanced lepers in the island as our candidates. Singapore will have to wait until the fascism of the Colonial Office and the Communism of Peking have expended themselves fighting...
...reunification in peace and liberty with the other powers, would give it to us alone. They only want to bargain. In their eyes, German reunification is one of several objectives from which they want to get as much as possible. Khrushchev has said that he is willing to wait until I have disappeared...
...assured his countrymen that he had "enough authority, energy and fighting spirit to guarantee a full five-year term which will not fall into the abyss of government marked by precariousness and instability." Raising his voice, he added, "From the people I deserve confidence, and I ask that they wait for the results of my work ... I shall not fail your trust nor disappoint your hopes...
Impartially athletic, Robin switched to basketball with the season. When his mother would try to get him to do some work around the place, he would put her off: "Naw, Mom. I'm a ballplayer. You just wait till I get into the major leagues. Then I'll build you a house." Even Tom Roberts came to respect his son's determination. "You just had to go along," he says today. "He wouldn't do nuthin' else...
...decided to be bad. That settled, he developed a morbid fear of being touched; he began to rough his mother up; he led his gang in brutal street fights; finally he decided "to bump a guy" who had offended him. "I feel loose," he tells his accomplice as they wait giggling in the shadows for their victim, like little boys fumbling in a dark closet for the cookie jar. "Like I was made for gettin' even...