Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't wait; I rushed out. Reaching home, I unstrapped the contraption that serves as a substitute for my left leg since I had an argument with a germ several years ago and lost, and there in the bottom of the socket, wedged tight, was the wallet...
...clerk), a waitress was arrested for peddling narcotics; the switchboard was taken over by a telephone operator who claimed to read character from voices, and who refused to put through calls from types he disliked. Still the guests came, and still they dropped into the pool. "I used to wait for them to come home and fall in," remembers Playwright Arthur Kober. "It was like waiting for a shoe to drop. I'd hear the splashes and then I'd go to sleep...
...squarely in the face (see cut). Patterson literally rose six inches into the air before thudding to the canvas on the seat of his white satin pants. He wobbled up at the count of nine, and stared bewildered in the direction of the Yankee bleachers. Johansson did not wait for him to turn around. He clipped him with a left hook, then smashed a right over the ear. Patterson fell. Five times more Patterson lurched gamely to his feet, and five times more Johansson smashed him down. At last Referee Ruby Goldstein called off the slaughter, and the freshest grin...
...during the ten days of the hadj, as heat-sick pilgrims squatted in the streets gathering strength for the 46-mile trek to Mecca. But newly rich Saudi Arabia has recently built a "Pilgrim City"-a roofed compound, equipped with food shops, electricity, running water and toilets. Here pilgrims wait out a three-day quarantine before inspection by doctors...
...purely illusory: he still insisted that the Western powers must withdraw their troops from Berlin, but professed willingness to bargain over the deadline date. Delivering this "great new plan" to the Western foreign ministers in Geneva, dour Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko suggested that Moscow might be willing to wait as long as 18 months, instead of a year. Either way it was an ultimatum, though Gromyko quibbled at calling it that. At this bleak point, 41 days after they had first assembled in Geneva, the Big Four foreign ministers at last agreed upon something: a three-week recess...