Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bank gamboling for several weeks, and make the distance to women's colleges seem even further. The normal activities of this term are already slowed--skaters are pausing to shovel off frozen lakes, and careful autoists are wrestling with tires and rusty chains. Even the shoeshine will have to wait until the small boys put away the buckets of water they are now using to freeze snowballs out of dry flakes...
...Toby! . . . Toby: What are you doing?, Green: I just want to get out. Toby: Dad, that's silly. How can you get out that way? Green: Toby, Toby, you know Dad. Toby: I know you. Green: I'll get out! . . . Honey, Toby, honey, I am awfully sorry . . . Wait a minute, dear. Some of the boys are wondering who I am calling "dear" and "honey." One says who am I talking to, the warden? . . . Toby: W7hat are you doing with the guards ? Green: Oh, playing a little bridge with them or something like that. Toby: What about...
...Nationalists was one of gloomy foreboding, frustration, resentment. Said a Taipei lawyer: "When are people going to realize that appeasement of the Communists does not pay?" A broadcasting official: "I feel numb when I think of what is happening." A merchant in Hong Kong: "I just can't wait to see the day America will be 'liberated' by the Communists. They haven't been hit hard enough to see what's coming for everybody." Formosa's new troubles lent added weight to a psychological campaign which the Reds have been waging against the Nationalists...
...Grace. "And the dress isn't even in the picture." Last week MGM's Production Boss Dore Schary summoned Grace to Hollywood to propose a new picture-a western with Spencer Tracy scheduled to costar. After two days' of talk, Grace was still noncommittal; she would wait, she said coolly, until she had seen the completed script...
...excuse for every sort of extravagance. He kept a menagerie which included foxes, goats, hogs, monkeys and dormice. To get material for The Deserter, he commandeered a sergeant, drummer and soldier, plied them with ale and tobacco for two days. Morland sold well, but often he could not wait for purchasers to leave his studio before uttering three loud "huzzahs" and heading straight for the nearest pub. At the peak "of his career, Morland, only 28, found himself ?4,000 in debt. Morland's life became an unending struggle to keep out of debtors' prison. To meet...