Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everybody will agree with you. But how long can this nation live in constant fear without getting a generation of neurasthenics or, what is worse, a generation of the devil-may-care variety. Why wait for "the approaching deadlock"? Why wait for the time when "each has the power to smash the other into radioactive rubble"? Why not attack the enemy first...
...Wait Greeley, captain of the 1952-52 Crimson hockey team, was named yesterday to the 15-man United States squad which will compete in the 1955 World Amateur championships to be held at Dusseldorf, Germany, Greeley was a center at Harvard...
...Time to Wait. Except in private reports to top United Nations delegates, Hammarskjold told very little of his conversations with Chou. "I achieved what I had hoped to achieve," he said. "We remain in touch . . . The door has been opened and can be kept open." The door to what? To "an attitude, let us call it, of playing fair...
Some are dragged through the door asking for just a little more time. Mussolini (to his executioner): "But . . . but . . . Mr. Colonel." Pope Alexander VI: "I come. It is right. Wait a moment." When a parson told Ethan Allen (a religious man who took Fort Ticonderoga "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress") that the angels were waiting for him, Allen exploded: "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, God damn 'em, let 'em wait...
Edith was only five when she attempted to run away from home, but returned because she couldn't lace her boots. At Renishaw, the Sitwell country house in Derbyshire, the child's first friend was a peacock which used to wait for her each morning. "I would go to the garden and we would walk, you might say, arm in arm. When asked why I loved him so, I answered, 'Because he's beautiful, and be cause he wears a crown!' " That idyll ended when father Sitwell bought the peacock a wife. "From that moment...