Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right near the top of the list we'll put down Success for The Teams, underlining a win over Yale in all departments, particularly swimming. But there'll be no requests for undefeated seasons. How then could the coach flex his check muscles and mutter something about "Just wait till next year"? And with solid wins what would happen to the grand old phrase of "...not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game...
...increase in the personal exemption from $600 to $700. But President Eisenhower's budget message is not likely to contain any specific recommendation for a tax cut. Administration policy, hammered out and approved last week at Gettysburg and Camp David, calls for caution. The Administration will wait to take another look at the situation after April 15, when 1955 tax returns will be in and the first quarter of 1956 business experience can be examined...
...hope that the Russians would then free the entire country. The West Germans, of course, do not want any such "bargain." Pearson dodged with practiced skill, but did not deny it when a correspondent asked whether he would raise this issue in Paris. "We'd better wait and see," he said. "That's a very good question...
...economical, fuel-gulping jets must make high-speed letdowns from cruising altitudes and land immediately. But under today's controls, such high-speed penetrations are too dangerous to allow over airports with dozens of planes milling about. Thus, jets will have to wait their turn, cost more to operate and lose much of their speed value for travelers...
...Wife No. 17, Emma Batchellor ("a more kindhearted, industrious, & affectionate wife I never had"), is the nearest thing to a riot in all the Diaries. Emma did not wait for Lee to propose, but flatly "said that I on first site was the object of her Choice." Emma poured kettlefuls of hot water on one of her husband's enemies and scratched his face until it was "a gore of Blood." When scandalized Bishop Pace commanded that Emma be "re-baptized" to atone for such conduct, "Emma asked the prevelege of choice in the man to Baptise...