Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors discussed his operation in the next room. As the conference opened, bells tolled all over Germany, students marched silently through cities, people gathered to pray. A Teletype connected Der Alte's mountaintop with his lieutenants in Geneva. Bulganin's statement that the unification of Germany could wait had plunged them in gloom, but that gloom had been expected. Eisenhower's statement-as it reached the public through a British briefing officer-sounded as if the West were getting ready to offer Russia a security pact while leaving Germany divided. That night Adenauer drafted a stern note...
...provide you the facilities for aerial reconnaissance, where you can make all the pictures you choose and take them to your own country to study, you to provide exactly the same facilities for us, and we to make these examinations." The ifs and buts would have to wait; the details could be picked over later. What matters, said Ike, is that Russia and the U.S., with their "new and terrible weapons," could in this simple manner "convince the world that we are providing, as between ourselves, against the possibility of great surprise attack, thus lessening danger and relaxing tension...
...bondage of purdah, the second-rate status of women in the land of his ancestors. The five girls, ranging in age from 26 to 14, worked hard all day in their father's fields, and at the end of each long day they were forced to wait patiently while the menfolk finished their evening meal at the family dinner table. Then, along with their mother, the girls were permitted to squat on the floor and eat what was left...
...thirds of all U.S. citizens are covered by some kind of hospital or health insurance, but nearly all have to wait until they are actually ill before they can benefit. They cannot use their insurance plans for diagnosis,* so they rarely go to a doctor at the first twinge, when tracking down the trouble would do the most good. Instead, they suffer this and many later twinges rather than pay for laboratory tests...
...Star glided like a ghost ship into a searchlight beam off Diamond Head. Once more she was first to finish; she had trimmed 19 hours off her old record. Said Rheem: "I wouldn't want to try and break that one." Then, as before, he settled back to wait and see who had really...