Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to a place in the Senate: "I have given long service to the Democratic Party in Hawaii, and I have many friends in Washington." As for Danny Inouye, he had enhanced his already strong position by acting in the interests of party loyalty-and he could afford to wait...
...have been cooled-as it was last year-by the evidence that he was unlikely to win any cheap victories. Almost ignored was his offhand remark, in a speech at Korea in Albania: "If there is no meeting of the heads of government in the near future, we shall wait until the time is ripe...
There for the next four hours, too weak to raise their rifles, surrounded by several hundred Communist troops, 25 heroic U.S. infantrymen sit caked in blood and sweat and dust, and wait for help to come -wait unaware that all the while, back in the headquarters of the Far East command, a little group of earnest, greying generals are solemnly debating a question that may carry, for the unmilitary observer, some suggestion of the impersonal horror, the mindless irony of war. The question: "Do we really want to hold Pork Chop Hill...
...most Russians go to their mailbox or wait patiently in the midmorning kiosk queue for a copy of Pravda or Izvestia. Readers write the papers thousands of letters every week, usually complaining against some service or some minor bureaucrat. They have a private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn...
...Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove, and you can't wait for the mathematician. You have to go ahead and try what you know by intuition." To prove his theory of intuition, he founded his own Technical Institute of Construction and Cement, kept it going on a shoestring...