Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Wait. "Everything," in fact, was never better. At that moment, the U.S. House of Representatives was approaching a final vote on the Hawaii statehood bill, passed overwhelmingly (76-15) by the Senate the day before. Now, after 59 years of territorial status, 40 of them spent waiting impatiently for statehood, Hawaii was on its way. For years congressional opposition had been overpowering, for the pivotal Southern bloc of Democrats never relished the idea of a new state whose population and character was so seemingly alien-and so Republican to boot. It looked dark for Hawaii last year, too, when...
...they didn't wait for long. The nodding dilettantes of the 11 o'clock crowd poured in one night and the walls were painted a new and shining yellow, with a bluish trim. Gone were the spattered woodwork and the coffee stains; and there were curtains in the front. The window-sitters looked up from their game of Flarg occasionally, and chuckled unconvincingly...
Behind the counter they contemplated the incoherent group in front of them. There is one thing more, they said, only one, but we will have to wait. We will have to wait until the customers are really ready...
Ellsberg, analyzing the delicate components of deterrance in the third of his series of Lowell lectures, compared the present world balance of power to a game in which the opponents have only two alternatives--wait, or strike with nuclear weapons...
...Colombia, also hit by an epidemic, issued a similar call, got 90,000 children immunized. The schedule: three doses spaced three weeks apart. In Medellin doctors are trying a three-in-one vaccine combination for the newborn, will wait to see how it works before extending the one-dose method to older children...