Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his sudden relegation to the status of an only child. This book, although written a year ago while Stalin was still God, might well be dedicated to any die-hard anti-Communists who still expect to hear momentarily that the Peking regime has been overthrown. While they wait, such people should read China: New Age and New Outlook. It will bring them back to reality in a hurry...
...tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...
There is a critical difference between this and any similar period in our history: in today's world, as I have already suggested, we cannot wait until disaster overtakes us to forge a new political answer...
This hard fact adds a formidable new dimension to the political challenge which confronts our generation. In other periods we could wait until a developing crisis created a light so brilliant that the new or broader truths were no longer obscured. Our slowness in achieving the necessary new perspective was costly. But it was not catastrophic. In the Nuclear Age our problem is to achieve the essential clarification before our democratic society is overtaken by total disaster from which there may be no recovery...
...doesn't seem to dig the music so much. She looks for the funny people who come to visit with her friends and her coffee. Latterly, a swarthy young man who is known among intimates as "The Butcher" and who smokes cigarillos has made the scene and helps Pat wait on her humble customers. Pat really doesn't resent the public's comment on her pretty dresses and lengthy eye-lashes because she knows that nobody really takes that sort of thing seriously. Pat says she was from Michigan before she was from Europe, and The Butcher reportedly says that...