Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auriol, with Coty's concurrence, would refuse the resignation and ask the Premier to continue in office; that Laniel would then go before the National Assembly and request a vote of confidence. Many embittered Deputies who would like to bring down the Laniel government might be inclined to wait, knowing that their chance will come in due time and that the next Cabinet crisis, when it happens, will probably be a blockbuster...
...opposition they met hardly justified the effort. Expecting the uninvited visitors the three hundred residents of the town assembled in the school-yard to wait for the invasion. When the swarm of deputies took over the town, they did so to the strains of the Star Spangled Banner sung by Short Creek residents as they hoisted a fluttering American flag into the dawn breeze. This exemplary patriotism did not deter the Law, and the town's thirty-six men were taken to jail; the eighty-six now-lonely women went to foster homes in Phoenix...
...Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty of the sea, but the reef, lying in wait to grab the unwary diver, "never forgets...
...Evanston (Ill.) Township High School has 83 seniors in college-level history, English, mathematics, French and Spanish. "After a taste of one or two of the courses," says Superintendent Lloyd S. Michael, "some of the students have told me: 'If college is anything like this, I can hardly wait...
...attention-Cress resolves to be a "character." Her trademark, she decides, will be Craziness, and pretty soon long-suffering Pa & Ma Delahanty begin to find around the house lists of premeditated behavior, e.g., "Useful Gags for Craziness. I. Clothes, A. Shoes, 1. Unmatched." One of her projects is to wait until she gets on the school bus before putting on her shoes. This gets her a squib in the school paper and passing fame as the author of "Delahanty's Law." But her gags have a way of backfiring; people laugh, but not necessarily in admiration...