Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Choked Throats. As the dusters sweep in, visibility sometimes falls to zero. During bad storms, traffic ceases, lights go on in such hard-hit towns as Garden City, Kans. or Lubbock, Texas. Farmers and townspeople seek shelter and wait while dust seeps remorselessly through every crack of window and door and drifts in the fields and streets outside...
...soldiers squirm out of the jungle across the ground before the fortress to dig foxholes and assault trenches. Each time a sentry gazes out beneath a star shell, the Red shadows and the chink chink of digging seems to come closer. Outnumbered three to one, the defenders of Dienbienphu wait calmly this week for the assault they believe is sure to come...
...enough to compensate for the soaring costs of hospitalization, and most do not provide long-term care for such diseases as polio, TB and cancer. Another frequent weakness: if an illness runs longer than a specified time (seldom more than 120 days), benefits stop and the patient has to wait sometimes for months before they start up again. Meanwhile, he has to pay all expenses himself, just when he can least afford...
Soberer heads pointed out that by-elections in safe seats are not perfect indicators. Their counsel: wait at least until 1955, when the question of Sir Winston Churchill's retirement will surely have been settled, a successor will have taken over, and the Conservative government will have a four-year record of accomplishment to campaign...
...what it is. The editors call on Italy's Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once editor of the paper and still its ultimate authority as well as its biggest shareholder. When Togliatti himself has not yet had the word from Moscow L'Unità is forced to wait, as it did when the "doctors' plot" exploded in Moscow and L'Unità came out with the story a day after the other Italian papers...