Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity. The cure of this problem is being evolved now through accelerated training methods, through a willingness to put young men into responsible positions at an earlier age and a complete break with the traditions of many years ago, that a man in a bank had to wait for the individual ahead of him to die before he could be promoted...
...than 70 newsmen surged around him as he intoned his careful words: "I am very glad to use this chance-the first I have had in nearly four years-to reassert my complete innocence of the charges that were brought against me by Whittaker Chambers ... I have had to wait in silence while, in my absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel the myth ... I shall renew my efforts to dispel the deception that has been foisted on the American people." He said he hoped to "allay...
When another reporter appeared at the Chambers farm. Esther Chambers sat him down in front of the kitchen fireplace to wait while Chambers went to his typewriter, put a piece of yellow paper in it, and wrote: "The saddest single factor about the Hiss case is that nobody can change the facts as they are known. Neither Alger Hiss nor I, however much we might wish to do so, can change these facts. They are there forever. That is the inherent tragedy of this case...
...Confession. But from that point on, wrote Phyllis, her husband's attitude changed. "He was afraid to go to sleep at night, and every time I came near him he would instinctively put his arms up to protect his head and face. Sometimes I would wait as long as two months before retaliating, and all the while he would be going crazy wondering at what unexpected moment he would be attacked. Finally he asked for a truce, and I gladly agreed. Since that time, he has never laid a hand upon me or the girls, and our married life...
...major role of barrister Sir William Robert is played by Francis L. Sullivan, whose pomposity and gruff voice should provide the play with a comic touch. Sir William is indeed pompous, and since Sullivan has a cold his voice is even gruffer than usual, but the playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because Agatha Christic has made him so. The witness for the prosecution is Patricia Jessel, as Romaine. She should...