Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applicant must have a documented record of his activities during the last two years. Since most escapees can document nothing that took place before their escape, they are consigned to a two-year wait at places like Camp Valka. Secretary of State Dulles has not used his authority to waive the two-year history...
Before the bell, there was an anxious wait for 1) the payoff on a major U.S. gamble that Red China would turn down the U.N. invitation to discuss ceasefire, and 2) agreement between the U.S. and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on defense of the offshore islands...
...their own behalf and (in most cases) cross-examine adverse witnesses. But the system does not-and cannot-adhere strictly to judicial principles, with the "defendant" presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. For guilt in the legal sense is not involved. The idea is not to wait until the drunken employee gives away an important secret; it is to get rid of him beforehand...
...wait a minute," said Schulberg, "These kids have seen 'Waterfront." The producer and Miss Gardner must have been unimpressed, however, for they had, already grabbed their coats and were escorting the author out the door. A Dartmouth student standing nearby had taken out a pen to get the visitor's autography. But before he could say anything, Schulberg and his companions, without a backward glance, had disappeared among the ice statues of Fraternity...
University car owners, however, need not get excessively worried about receiving tickets. According to McCarthy, a new city ordinance permits the Police Department to wait 30 days after the ticket is issue before sending a summons...