Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night stand, the board of directors of Manhattan's Protestant Council voted to invite Billy to hold a first full-scale "crusade" in New York City in September 1956. Graham, in Switzerland to conduct crusades in Zurich and Geneva last week, told newsmen that he would wait until the invitation arrived before accepting or rejecting...
...Senate floor. A whisper from Lyndon during roll call, and the clerk shifts into a slow, minor key. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell whether the Senate is rushing or loitering. But even Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, no expert, spotted Johnson's delay last week during the wait for Humphrey, and gruffly declared that it bothered...
Disdaining a soft success with trick shots and trick cutting, Sucksdorff stalked the bogs and thickets around his Swedish farm, lying in wait day after day and often most of the night in hope of catching the real right thing. He spent 72 nights in the field during three consecutive Aprils before he found the wood grouse fighting in a satisfactory light. He once waited 28 hours beneath a tree in order to capture a lynx when it came down, and he built 36 kinds of covert before he discovered an adequate way to hide and shelter himself...
Fischer: I believe I'll just wait to see my lawyer before answering that question...
...Booth Tarkington's day was obviously perilous enough, but there was one problem that no Tarkington hero ever had to face: Should he make plans for his military service, or should he simply wait a year and then register for the draft? Last week, as commencement drew near at schools and colleges across the U.S., it was, for thousands of boys, time for the big decision...