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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wichita Eagle shared her uneasiness. Gart, 30, a displaced Bostonian who is news editor of the Eagle, and TIME'S Wichita correspondent, knew it was impossible to outguess nature when the tails of twisters flap in the sky like shreds of a tattered flag. He could only wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...liable to be like it was when La Guardia was boss in City Hall in New York. Remember that cartoon-the little guy with the big hat walking into City Hall, the building jumping and shaking, the little guy walking out and the building settling back? Just you wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: AN ADMIRAL'S 31-KNOT CAREER | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Helen Choate Bell Prize of $400, won by Alice A. Cooper '56 for "The Superb Monotony: A Study of the Experience and Writings of Wait Whitman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowersock Awarded Conant Prize | 6/3/1955 | See Source »

...week when his Senate confirmation finally showed up. Long a U.S. diplomatic step child as High Commissioner, Harvard's ex-president jubilantly sped off to Bad Kissingen, where West Germany's old (71) President Theodor Heuss was vacationing. Heuss, who had reckoned that the presentation ceremony could wait until he was back on the job, bowed to American haste. He accepted Conant's papers, congratulated him, but barred photographers from snapping any pictures of the un ceremonious ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

Will his new formula for the Trib work? Most Trib staffers and newsmen on other papers are willing to wait and see. They realize that the Trib has been drifting for so long that it needs a new, firm course. Trib staffers devoutly hope that Brownie has picked the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Revolution at the Trib | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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