Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showrooms from Manhattan to New Rochelle last week the strikers, impeccable in well-tailored flannels and natty topcoats, picketed discreetly, almost sheepishly. There were no catcalls or other disturbances when customers violated the gentlemanly picket lines. Even those intrepid customers who bought new Cadillacs found they might have to wait for delivery. Members of the city's Cadillac delivery service were out, honoring the picket lines...
...rule had been working well for 15 years, however. The Masters were reluctant to step in themselves, knock off a few early afternoon hours for no reason at all, and thus seem like consumate killjoys. Therefore they decided to wait, knowing that before long students would inevitably appeal for extended parietal hours, thus giving them an opportunity to re-open the whole issue with a vengeance. And in the fall of 1950, sure enough, the seven House Committee chairmen unanimously asked the Masters for permission to entertain women guests until midnight on the Saturdays of the Yale and Dartmouth weekends...
...since parietal rules were last an issue, and by the time today's juniors and seniors have graduated no student will ever think that the hours of 4 to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 1 to 8 p.m. on home football Saturdays are not sacrosanct. The Masters can hardly wait...
...National Wheat Board, the only agency permitted by law to export wheat or ship it across provincial boundaries, in August 1954 placed a limit of 300 bushels on the amount of new wheat it would accept from any farmer during the harvest season. But the harvest could not wait. In the finest autumn weather in years, giant combines cut wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when...
Perhaps the basic reason behind Washington's three year delay is the fear of souring the smiles emanating from the Soviet Union. An attempt in a review conference to remove the veto power, for instance, could only antagonize the Soviets. Three years is a long time to wait, however, for a clarification of world politics. If the Soviet sun keeps shining for another year, a review conference should surely not upset any real change in Soviet attitude. And if the sunshine is only an illusion anyway, a review conference would only reveal already existing differences between East and West...