Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...digging behind the scenes, in earnest conversation with his fellow Governors, and in tireless, wide-grinning glad-handedness, he had no serious challenger as the conference's star operator. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Roscoe Drummond: "My impression is that Mr. Rockefeller can hardly wait to see his candidacy get off the ground and into the open...
Personal Project. Thaler, then 31, did not wait for official encouragement, or even ask for it. Instead, he went ahead on his own. He borrowed radio equipment from a colleague, set it up and trained it in the direction of Nevada, where the AEC was about to fire a series of atom bombs. To his delight, the oscilloscope showed telltale wiggles. Two months later, he picked up the trail of the Russian rocket that launched Sputnik I. Enlisting the aid of other colleagues, he turned his attention to missile launchings at Cape Canaveral. There he ran into bureaucracy. None...
...bookstore counters, anyone with a manuscript on his hands can find a publisher these days. Yet every year produces thousands of would-be writers whose work is so dreadful that even the most tolerant publishing firms will not put it in print. For these devotees of letters wait the "vanity presses," which print almost anything-at fees from the authors ranging between about $900 and $6,000. While there is nothing illegal in paying for the pleasure of seeing one's words in print, the Federal Trade Commission objects to vanity publishers who mislead clients into thinking that they...
Gentlemen Don't Wait. Biographer West (the wife of British Historian-Diplomat Harold Nicolson) has skillfully woven Mademoiselle's figure, with her private ardors and ironies, into the larger tapestry of the history, manners, and morals of Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by the manners than the morals. The Queen's own gentleman-in-waiting thought nothing of dropping the royal hand for a moment "pour alter pisser contre la tapis-serie." Garbage filled the rank Parisian streets, but the stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed...
DYLAN THOMAS READING "A VISIT TO AMERICA" AND POEMS (Caedmon). The persistent bestseller among the pressed poets introduces his fourth posthumous album by biting the fans that fed him, with an assault on the "culture vultures" who lie in wait for traveling English poets. That chore out of the way, he sets to reading Walter de la Mare, W. H. Auden, Thomas Hardy in the familiar, tumult-ringing style that makes every poet who ever lived sound like Dylan Thomas...