Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's press conference came the inevitable death-watch question: Had Vice President Richard Nixon yet told Ike whether he wanted to run again? Replied President Eisenhower: "No." But the President did not have long to wait. Next day Dick Nixon made what was-despite volumes of editorial cliff-hanging-the most predictable announcement of the year...
Coming to Commonwealth Avenue Fewer people are cheering us. More laughing. Just wait till the straightaway comes. We're saving our energy...
...they had been met by thousands of Japanese fishing boats, which plucked almost all of Japan's important salmon catch from the northern waters. But this year the salmon move unmolested, and the sea is free of boats. Back in the fishing villages of Hokkaido, the Japanese vessels wait idly, their crews staring balefully out to sea. The gay festival that was to precede the departure for the fishing grounds has been canceled...
...Others in the cast, however competent, seem a little too studied grotesque or Middle European in style. None the less, Godot has its own persistent fascination. For once in a way, at least, in a theater rife with pointless hurry-scurry, they distinctly serve who only stand and wait...
...WINS ! headlined one weekly. In Paris' Le Monde, venerable critic Emile Henriot wrote: "At her flying start two years ago, we could wonder if this 18-year-old girl, bitterly instructed . . . would be the woman of only one book, this terribly disturbing Bonjour Tristesse . . . We had to wait for her second book. Here it is . . . and it is perfect...