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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was about as close to granting Tunisian autonomy as France was ready to go at present. Many Tunisians were jubilant, though some preferred to wait and see. Premier Faure well knew that there were some road mines ahead, since details remain to be settled by the two governments, and the French National Assembly-where the North African colons are powerful-may make trouble. Nevertheless Faure was triumphant. "Some people," he said, "have reproved me for being an immobiliste. What kind of immobilisme is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Wedding Day | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

Only those 'Cliffedwellers living in off-campus houses will be able to have private telephones by next September, Emily B. Lacey, Dean of Residence, announced yesterday, as students living in brick dormitories will have to wait until the middle of the year for the laying of a cable from Central Square to Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Must Wait For New Phones | 4/30/1955 | See Source »

...that they must be in love," she said. "I tell the girls it is all right to sleep with a boy-but first they must be in love. When I tell them that, you see them smiling and nudging each other." "You don't advise them to wait until they get married?" I asked. Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen fixed me with a scornful eye. "Everybody knows that couples-young people when they are, how do you say it, 'going steady'-sleep together," Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen said. "Their mothers and fathers know it. What use is there of trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: SIN & SWEDEN | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...chief foreign purchasing agency. Among other passengers, five listed as Chinese newsmen were actually (according to Western intelligence) unsung but important Communist propaganda and intelligence agents. The plane took off. A few hours later, it crashed into the South China Sea 250 miles east of Singapore. Without waiting for details, India's Prime Minister Nehru dispatched a message of concern to Peking: "This disaster has some very unusual features. Something must have happened suddenly. There must be a full inquiry." Peking did not wait, either. Even before the delegation left, said the Foreign Ministry, the government had learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crash Report | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...only three are elected every year, the minority "would be able to elect only one director at each election and could never have more than three directors on the board at one time." The traditional right of a majority is also "impaired," since the majority would have to "wait for two or three years" to get control of the company. Claim & Counterclaim. Wolfson's court victory was no proof that he would win the proxy fight. Ward President Edmund Krider, who said that the company had spent $125,000 on the fight so far, boasted that Avery had proxies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wolfson Takes a Round | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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