Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Wait. Since then, Sir Anthony Eden has been waiting with impeccable good manners (and sometimes super-human patience) for Sir Winston Churchill to retire. The long wait has been a trial. Sometimes, in the midnight hours, Eden's phone would ring, and Churchill's voice would say: "I am very tired. I think you must get ready . . ." But in the morning the old man would change his mind again. Sometimes he got a puckish delight out of teasing Eden, and there have been times in recent months when Eden's respect for the "greatest living...
...mother and an English father ("I wouldn't say he was very devout, but Mother was"), went to Catholic grade and high school. When she was twelve, she heard a Jesuit speak on Indian missions and wanted to leave at once. Her parents managed to persuade her to wait. While she waited, she read (Mark Twain and Horatio Alger in public, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the sly), eventually went to work as bookkeeper for Shellenberger Inc. (candy manufacturers). Six years later, in 1914, she moved to the Remington Arms Co., Inc. as secretary to the chief of records...
...French were in charge in Indo-China. A shooting war was on, and the central problem was to save the land from Communist absorption. While the tragedy played toward its climax, disappointed Ngo Dinh Diem sadly took himself off to a monastery, in Belgium, there to live and wait in a cell. "We must continue the search for God's Kingdom and His justice," Diem wrote home, "all else will come of itself...
Rush Hour. In San Francisco, Gunman Jack M. Love, 29, complained to police that before he was able to rob the Carmel Liquors Store of $64, he not only had to wait for the customers to leave, but also to outwait a rival who was hanging around for the same purpose...
Emphasizing that all the money collected up to now has been solicited informally, Solomon said more fund-raising efforts will be necessary, but exactly what form the campaign will take must wait for more definite results of the informal drive...