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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call off a mob from burning a Greek church, a Turkish woman lawyer, Surreya Agaoglu, shouted from her balcony that the marauders were endangering their own homes. "What have we to lose but a blanket and a pot?" came a harridan's screech from the mob. "You wait in your fine home. Your turn will come!" By then it was poor against rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TURKEY: A Friend in Trouble | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...highly successful crop insurance scheme, would not only fill the gap left by private companies but would also be a safe financial risk for the government. For a federal corporation could absorb the losses from local disasters by spreading its coverage over a wide area and could wait for many years for losses to be paid back in premiums. The federal government, moreover, has the experienced personnel to administer such a program, as indicated by the efficiency of the Armed Forces and crop insurance plans. Flood insurance is no final answer to the complex problem of flood control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Came the Deluge | 10/18/1955 | See Source »

...Ambassador Abba Eban assailed the Communists for providing arms "to governments whose primary international objective is to destroy a neighboring state with which they refuse to establish peace," and his government asked the U.S. to restore the "balance of power" by selling arms to Israel. Cried Eban: "Can Israel wait like a rabbit for the snake to get big enough to devour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Cock of the Walk | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...officials have decided to watch and wait while considering possible alternatives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...Administration's wait-and-see approach to its proposed faculty housing in the Shady Hill area seems to have brought quiet results, a survey of neighborhood opinion revealed last night...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Opposition to Housing Plan Partially Dies | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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