Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once listed officially as a deb, the new blossom has only to sit back and wait for the invitations to pour in. During a mad period of flowering that lasts for three months, her mornings are spent in beauty sleep, her afternoons and evenings at a never-ending round of teas, dinners and balls, her nights at nightclubs. A shrewd father can cut the upkeep for the season down to as low as ?1,000, but many a deb runs up the tabs to well over...
...Vatican, merely because somewhere in the textbooks of its professors-ever since 1934-it has rightly been said that 'totalitarianism' is a dreadful thing? . . . The Church ought to stand quietly aloof from the present conflict and not let off all its guns before it is necessary, but wait calmly to see whether the situation will grow serious again . . ." So last week Karl Barth waited in his comfortable study in Basel, working on his magnum opus in theology, Dogmatics, still unconvinced that Communism is the "temptation" that Hitlerism was, still finding it hard to see any real qualitative differences...
...Sweet tried the electroencephalogram ("brainwave machine") and got indications of a local disorder, but nothing definite enough to justify major brain surgery. Another standard test (in itself fairly drastic), involving the injection of air into the brain cavities, showed nothing. Not long ago Holly Hyde would have had to wait for her condition to worsen, imperiling her understanding of language and perhaps endangering her life, before the doctors could have felt certain of what...
...professional courtesy whereby doctors treat each other and their families free has boomeranged and hurt the health of all concerned, Seattle's Dr. Merrill Shaw told the American Academy of General Practice. Physicians try not to bother their colleagues for minor ills or regular examinations, and often wait until it is too late. "If I had had a doctor who kept regular watch of me . . . my illness would have been detected long before I found it myself," he said. Dr. Shaw's plea had to be read in his absence: he is dying of cancer...
...before his set. "My wife says I'm an indiscriminate viewer. I'm interested even in TV's imperfections. I don't know why they don't simplify their backgrounds-dancers are murdered against all those busy stage sets." But TV will have to wait. Even though-for the first time in eleven years-there is no Rodgers & Hammerstein show on Broadway, both men have full schedules, will spend this summer in Hollywood working on the movie version of Oklahoma...