Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly wait to read the squawks from the fogheads (better word than eggheads) about your choice of Curtice...
There remained the valise. Already 300 European families have left. Charming villas along the coast are empty and boarded up, for sale for a song. Those who could not leave wait and hope. "I'll go anywhere," said a clerk in Air France desperately seeking a transfer last week. "All I own is here," said an old farmer, "but find me a job somewhere, and I'll go." Paul-Dominique Crevaux, the pistol-packing young mayor of Philippeville, whose family has been in Algeria since 1847, was busy organizing a committee to resettle his citizens in Australia...
...more on the counsels of Manager Adams. Ike's trust was especially earned in the episode of Dick Nixon's expense account, when many of the Eisenhower staff members panicked and began screaming for Nixon's head. Adams' advice was simple: "Sit tight and wait." Then he helped set up Nixon's effective television speech...
...plants and equipment in 1955, 5% more than 1954. California's economy grew with gold-rush speed. In the San Fernando Valley a citrus farmer was tempted to take $3,500 an acre from a housing developer for his 40 acres, but an expert advised him to wait. A few weeks later, the farmer was back with a mile-wide grin. Said he: "I just wanted you to know that I've sold my land for $7,500 an acre." California's gain was once the East's loss, but 1955's economy...
Councillor Hyman Pill explained the CCA's abstention by asserting that the association's minority will "wait and see" which independent will agree to cooperate with CCA-backed city manager John J. Curry '19 and uphold CCA school committee policies. Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, unofficial spokesman for the CCA group, said yesterday that "any of the five independents might be acceptable, but the CCA will make sure that he's the man we want before we pick...