Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missed Sleeping Beauty when the time came to read it, several years ago. "Why bother," I told my better-read friends, "I'll wait 'til they make a movie of it." In view of this literary lapse, I really enjoyed the Children's Theatre rendition, because this pixie outcropping of the growing Harvard Dramatic Club has produced a treat for the matinee crowd...
...make behind their backs? At home, the management was frustrated by a lack of demand for their services, and fearful of their aging equipment and personnel. Time was running out, warned Premier Chen Cheng, newly designated nominee for vice president, and heir-designate to President Chiang Kaishek: "If we wait another three to five years [to counterattack the mainland], our chances of success will diminish to almost nothing." Furthermore, "the enemy will be encouraged to attack...
...imagined," had a headline-making spat with his wife June in Beverly Hills. June walked out. Figuring that she had gone home to mother. Oscar tried to phone her there, was told by the local operator that the line was busy and that he would have to wait half an hour. Cried Oscar: "In half an hour I'll be dead!" Said the operator, soothingly: "Hold on. I'll help you." "Gee, I've found a friend," said Oscar, who once confessed that his troubles revolved around "acute anxieties, ritualistic compulsions, substitutive obsessions and irrational hostilities...
...much about the afterlife as you−nothing," Dr. Inge told an interviewer last July. "I don't even know there is one . . . I have no vision of 'heaven' or a 'welcoming God.' I do not know what I shall find. I must wait...
...wait until he was nearly 94. A few weeks ago Dr. Inge fell ill of bronchitis, and last week he died...