Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, however, two heats meant that the final placings would have to be determined on times. The officials had gotten themselves into this mess through faulty timing, and now they were opening the way for more confusion. And they had not long to wait. In the last heat, Pedro Galvao of S.M.U. (58.8) beat Lyn Meiring of Oklahoma (58.7) by a stroke. Since the officials had announced that the finals would be determined on times, however, the place judges had to give way to the timers. Meiring had to be given second place over Galvao...
...Israeli contention, "than more water and no agreement." He promised that the Arabs had "a little more time" to reach a compromise. But in the end, he said, Israel would go after her water despite Arab threats. If war should result, "we shall cross into Arab territory and not wait to meet the Arabs on our own soil...
...Awful Long Wait." Both sides will take a long time recovering from the effects. The company lost $290 million in direct production and an immeasurable sum in disruption of its relations with its customers. Some 12,000 of its supervisory workers, put on half pay during the strike, lost $20 million more...
...they will gain in wage and benefit increases during the next five-year contract. At this rate, it will take them more than ten years to make up in wage increases what they lost in 156 days of striking. Said a Sharon, Pa. worker: "It was an awful long wait. I lost track of the days, nothing but bad, all running together. You couldn't plan or look forward to anything. You didn't dare buy or owe. I hope we don't go out again for a long time...
...Africa he set to work cleaning up the Indian community, founded a cooperative educational farm and instructed the Indians in sanitation. Later, when he was doing the same type of service in India, he washed the latrines before a meeting of independence leaders, and drily asked why they should "wait till the advent of swarai (self-rule) for the neccessary drain-cleaning...