Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face when at last he fought his way to the great reception tent erected in his honor. From the tangle of wrecked chairs and public-address wires, he seized a microphone and panted at the crowd: "I had a lot of things to say, but they will have to wait until a better time. I thank you for this great reception, but you have spoiled part of my happiness by this confusion." Unable to hear this gentle reproof because the mike was dead, the crowd at last dispersed, tired but happy. As Nehru sank into a comfortable seat in President...
...Resident General Gilbert Grandval, sent from Paris to bring peace and a fair deal to restive Moroccans, acted like a man with no time to lose. The minute his plane stopped at Casablanca's airstrip, he jumped down from the plane, too impatient to wait until the ramp was shoved into place. In his first week, he fired nine of the protectorate's top French officials, "for essentially psychological reasons"; they were competent, he explained, but identified with the old, unpopular order. To Moroccan cheers, he declared a general amnesty for Bastille Day, freeing 77 political prisoners...
...Kastner and his friends pondered this dreadful bargain, the hostages in the case-Hungary's million-odd Jews-were rounded up at the rate of 12,000 a day and herded off to "labor camps" to wait their fate. The bargain was never consummated. Kastner's contacts overseas (one of them, Moshe Sharett, is now Israel's Prime Minister) told him to make a noncommittal answer and keep bargaining. Day after day as the bargainers waited through the spring and summer of 1944, packjammed trainloads of Jews chugged through the pleasant green Hungarian countryside to the camp...
Suspensefully, the scientists watched the hive. If the bees waited until 8:15 p.m., New York time, before feeding, it would mean that their time sense is controlled by something connected with their position on the earth. The bees did not wait. At 3:15 New York time, 8:15 Paris time, they swarmed out for their sugar water. This proved that their time sense is independent...
...questioned by Senator Joe McCarthy last March about the frayed old Peress case. When McCarthy, reaching for publicity, accused the President of creating a "conspiracy" of silence, Brucker burst out laughing. "It's not funny," growled Joe. When McCarthy asked military witnesses loaded questions, Brucker interrupted crisply: "Now wait; don't answer that. There are three or four questions in that one, Senator. Split 'em up and we'll answer." McCarthy soon folded...