Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilkins countered, "we are willing to be moderates, if we can agree on what moderation means. Many people, including William Faulkner, have said "go slow" on the Lucy case. She waited five years after the original court decision. How long do you have to wait before you are not considered rash...
Other merchants echoed his woe in the sharp decline of French imports. In the villages outside the city the French army auctioned off its surplus to local businessmen, while Vietnamese shopkeepers eyed the stores and stalls of their French counterparts and waited patiently for them to go broke. "We can wait," they told the French, who rejected their absurdly low offers. "Your price will drop...
...prevent any leak before the conference ended, the Secret Service men frisked some women's large handbags for signaling devices. As an extra precaution, while the conference was on, they emptied the telephone booths in the corridor outside the room; legmen assigned to hold telephones had to wait outside the booths...
...Minute Extra. Seven tantalizing minutes after the conference began, the President ended the suspense of the historic second-term question. But correspondents had to wait another 15 minutes before they could get the news out. Then the U.P.'s Merriman Smith uttered the conference-ending words ("Thank you, Mr. President"), and newsmen stampeded for the door. Against the risk that their White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose...
Many planemakers feel that they do not keep enough money to do the job. For example, both McDonnell's Navy F3H fighter and Air Force F101 were held up from four to ten months because McDonnell lacked funds for computers and wind tunnels, had to wait in line to use the Government's. Said McDonnell's Executive Vice Pres ident Robert H. Charles: "If we had more money for development facilities, we could save millions...