Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers and the House of Commons, citizens-mainly a mixture of Laborites, churchmen and the more conservative Britons-have been fearfully prophesying the onslaught, forecasting an instant drop of cultural standards to the twelve-year-old level that they insist television has induced in the U.S. But other millions wait like a huge fifth column, eager for the day when they can switch their allegiance and their TV dials to multichannel reception and to something more stimulating than the toneless, grey gruel fed them...
...these pressures were not overwhelming. Against them stood good reasons why Adlai Stevenson should make no definite pronouncement now. If he did so, various political leaders would be under great and unwelcome pressure to declare for or against him. They would rather wait for sentiment to jell...
...ethics of high office, he never lets his wife take his Government-furnished limousine for her own use. When he was vice president of Bell Laboratories, which makes most U.S. telephones, he refused to use any influence to get his son a phone out of turn, let young Quarles wait 15 months for an instrument. In short, this was a man as different as possible from his predecessor...
...castoff from the Indians, Cubs, Braves and Giants, Billy, at 26, has been batting back and forth between the minors and majors for nine years. Everywhere, he looked pretty good; nowhere could he make the grade as a major league player. Even with the Red Sox, Billy had to wait his turn while Milt Boiling, Owen Friend and Eddie Joost took their cracks at his position. Then, when his chance came, he caught fire...
...Trash & Trivia." But the formula got out of hand. The biggest spur was economic. With little newsprint available, the popular press used what space it had to the best advantage, i.e., to lure readers. Since advertisers had to wait in line to get into the tightly rationed dailies, editors knew that the only way to boost revenue was to boost circulation...