Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polaris would not hurry for Dr. Moore; so the confirmation of his theory had to wait. Dr. Roemer, by carefully comparing a long series of spectrograms, proved that Polaris is circling once in 30½ years around a dim and probably close companion whose faint light is wholly blotted out by the glare of the supergiant...
...rock pounded by huge seas. The ship has vanished in the night, the men have nothing but the clothes they wear. There is no food, no firewood, no water. Novelist Roberts has a perfect chance to sort out the men from the weaklings. Some of them lie down and wait for death or rescue. But on that bare rock in those freezing temperatures, death is almost certain to get there first...
...destiny of the professional soldier to wait in obscurity most of his life for a crisis that may never come. It is his function to know how to solve it if it does come. It is his code to give all that...
...what most viewers wait for is Hitchcock's deadpan, devastating comments on the show's Bristol-Myers commercials. He ordinarily treats them with a disdain that is the equivalent of a fastidious man brushing a particularly repellent caterpillar off his lapel. After one drama, Hitchcock said gloomily: "As you know, someone must always pay the piper. Fortunately, we already have such a person. This philanthropic gentleman wishes to remain anonymous, but perhaps the more discerning of our audience will be able to find a clue to his identity in the following commercial." When the sales message has ended...
When last seen Thompson was pursuing Crimeds in all directions howling "Just wait until January...