Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to be Premier again himself some day, has supported the Scelba government publicly. But he has been careful not to identify himself with it, and is not in the Cabinet. He has often been privately critical. Fanfani could bring down the government now. But he would rather wait until he judges the moment ripe, and his own political machine ready, for a new election. Fanfani's temporizing contributes to immobilismo...
...newspaper editor at the University of North Carolina, and his statement is a key to Southern student opinion about the Supreme Court's outlawing of segregation in public schools. In a sampling of student editors, The Florida Flambeau found that despite some radical opinions on both sides, a wait-and-see attitude prevails in most Southern universities. This quiet seems to show that most college students have accepted eventual integration of whites and Negroes...
...roly-poly Trade Unionist named Lahbib Ben Mohammed, who has himself served time in French prisons for his nationalism, led one team into the hills near Jafna, sent word ahead by intermediaries, and sat down on a rocky slope to wait. At the appointed time, a slim, khaki-clad young man, binoculars slung around his neck, pistol bolstered in his belt, suddenly appeared before him. In a few minutes a bargain was struck, and out of hiding rose 22 more outlaws. They surrendered 15 rifles, 1,200 rifle cartridges, 5 revolvers with 200 rounds, and got thumb-printed amnesties...
Almost from the beginning, critics have talked about Hemingway's obsession with death, all the dark and clinical tear and bleeding on the battlefields, in the bull rings, in the lunchroom where The Killers wait, with gloves on, for their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems much less macabre and violent than he did in the pacifist climate of the '30s. Hemingway still stands out from a pack of introspective and obscure writers with a dazzling simplicity, rarely politicking, never preaching, never using Freudian jargon...
...given the Lasker Foundation Aware. Finally, last October he was sitting in his office being quizzed over the telephone by the Boston Globe's suspicious science writer, Frances Burns when word first come through that he and his two associated would receive the outstanding science award of the year. "Wait a second," Miss Burns said. "It's coming over the AP wire. You've won the Nobel Prize...