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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Commons speech, says, "Britain has a decisive role to play . . . That role is to civilize the power of America. Today Britain is the respected free nation in Southeast Asia, and I am afraid America is the discredited nation." Do they, the British, actually feel so smug? Wait until, God forbid, Hong Kong and Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

IRAQ has a long-range plan to restore the Biblical green of the Tigris-Euphrates, if only its restless people and its turbulent politicos will wait for its fruition. By turning the Wadi Tharthar (dry river bed) into a reservoir to sequester the Tigris-Euphrates overflow in floodtime, the annual drought-flood cycle will be controlled and Iraq's irrigated area doubled. It is being financed out of the country's oil royalties ($140 million last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: HOPE for the MIDDLE EAST | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Sobbed she: "I don't want to wait as long as Mrs. Vogeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Seven Hostages | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...view of Federal Communication's Commissioner Robert E. Lee, *- nobody seems to do much about it. More than two years have passed since the FCC set aside 242 tax-exempt channels for education, and 195 of them are still going abegging. Is educational TV worth the long wait, or should the unused channels be thrown open to commercial use? By last week Lee's public statements had created enough of a stir to set educators to examining their TV records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cautious Progress | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...thinks he will probably not last a full year, and may go down much sooner. "But by that time the logic of Mendès' views will be clear to the country," explains a disciple earnestly. "There may be dissolution and new elections, or we may have to wait longer. But people will see to it that Mendès-France eventually gets back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Ticking of the Clock | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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