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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot wait," says he. "That is the difficulty. We have to think in terms of large schemes of social engineering, not petty reforms." India's First Five-Year Plan still has six months to run, but last week Nehru and his government were plunging ahead with a far more ambitious Second Five-Year Plan, which planners say will add 25% to the national income (currently about $22 billion) and create 12 million new jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five-Year Plan | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Sullivan, longtime fee of the College's parking habits, said yesterday, "Wait till we (the Independents) get a majority and then I'll tell you what will happen...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Politicians Lack Issues in City Campaign | 10/14/1955 | See Source »

Each evening at 9:45 the alarm sounds in Lamont Library and 1,125 freshmen are left with virtually no place to study. The Yard dorms are crowded; between ten and twelve they are noisy. After Lamont, freshmen can do little more than chat with friends, wait for the milk and donuts vendor, and hope for a better day tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eighty-Five Hour Week | 10/11/1955 | See Source »

When the salesman couldn't verify his identity, Steiner told him to wait until he could call the Yard police. The salesman fled to the room of Fred Bowen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salesman Invades Freshman Dorm; Police Grab Him | 10/11/1955 | See Source »

...Kaiser's brand-new cruiser squadrons, had a brief taste of glory in the battles of Doggerbank and Jutland (in which the British were powerfully mauled), but at war's end the barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years. We'll be back." In half that time Raeder was building pocket battleships for Hitler, who made him an honorary member of the Nazi Party. But in World War II, when his battleships proved no more decisive than those of the Kaiser, Hitler fired him, made submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Old Crimes | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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