Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer of 1864, Confederate General Jubal A. ("Old Jubilee") Early sprayed tobacco juice on the ground within six miles of Washington and threw the North into such a tizzy that the Democrats decided to wait until things quieted down before holding their convention. They finally met on Aug. 29 and nominated General George B. McClellan, who set about failing in politics as he had in war. Since that unhappy lesson, the Democrats have held their conventions earlier. Last week, however, new National Chairman Paul Butler announced that the 1956 convention will start Monday, Aug. 27, so as to pack...
McCurdy will wait until meet-time to decide whom he will place in the dash, broad jump, pole vault, and high jump...
...Hechscher, at number one, along with Bob Brown, four, Cal Place, five, and Mike Levinson, nine, won their matches in straight sale, but the best match of the day was Guy Paschal's comeback against the Tech number two man, Wait Stahl. Stable took the first two sets, 15-11, 15-10, but Paschal won the last three and the match...
...vote, when it came, was a victory for the West and a defeat for the Russians. It was also a defeat for France. For four years and three months the West had been kept waiting by France. Last week, behind the public satisfaction expressed by Western statesmen, there was a relief that it would not be necessary again to wait for France...
...However, if the committee and Mr. Whit lock feel that it is too late in the year for an advising system to prove worthwhile, we will wait until next year. In any event, the plan will definitely go into operation next fall," he said...