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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government decides not to wait out that slim prospect, the R.C.A.F. is ready with three choices of aircraft, narrowed from an international list: Grumman's F11F-1F Super Tiger, Republic's F-105 Thunderchief and France's Dassault Mirage III. Whatever the choice, Ottawa would insist that Toronto's idle Avro plant be licensed to make it in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The $400 Million Question | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...months ago Schindler listed a few of his unanswered questions for the Toronto Telegram. Why did Harold Christie wait several hours after he found the body before reporting it? When the Duke of Windsor, Governor of the islands in 1943, summoned a Miami police expert, why did he mislead him into bringing the wrong equipment by describing Sir Harry's death as suicide? Who told Sir Harry's watchman he could have the night off? Who washed the bloody handprints from around the window in Sir Harry's bedroom? Why was the pistol removed from Sir Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: The Trouble with Harry | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Wait 'till next year" is an adage as old as organized sport, but in the case of the varsity lacrosse team it has definite meaning. For the Crimson next season will have six members returning from this spring's starting ten, along with a freshman team which compiled an 8-1 record...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

...wellspring of any architectural masterpiece lies in its design; blueprints and bricks come later. Even such a titan as the late Frank Lloyd Wright had to wait years to see his "impossible" ideas bear fruit. And the more adventurous the pioneer, the longer the wait. One of the most adventurous of all is Manhattan's Frederick Kiesler, who at 62 has originated more ideas and seen fewer of them built than almost any other architect of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tough Prophet | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...total, The Red and the Black would make an excellent television serial to be run at eleven in the morning. It is just the type of movie to coax tears from the housewife, but yawns from the student. The best that can be done is to wait out the Brattle in hope that its next flick will better becloud the academic mind. This simply hasn...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Red and the Black | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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