Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should wait and see what's what," another owner moaned. "Hair tonic, shaving cream, and the rent will go up next." A co-owner of La Flamme Shop said that he had a "clientele of doctors, lawyers, and businessmen for 15 or 25 years. I feel sorry for them; they are friends, not customers." His partner echoed, "He's right...
...election to the Legislative Council. A slight, soft-spoken man with an M.A. (history and economics) from the University of Edinburgh and the filed teeth of his tribe ("I found them a rather useful and amusing gimmick in college"), Nyerere is a comparative moderate who is willing to wait all of six years for independence from Britain, says of his own future: "When I make a great kelele [Swahili for disturbance], I am cheered to the echo. But when we take over the government, my troubles will begin. It will be but a matter of time before I find that...
...Bulgaria) to call him King Simeon II, settled down with Roommate Richard J. Sands for a session of rifle cleaning. Cadet Rylski remains youthfully sure that happier days will be here again: "Communists cannot rule forever. Despotisms have always fallen. Why should this one be an exception? I can wait, for I am young...
...rubbing shoulders and sometimes tolerantly conversing with the Hilton's exclusive clientele, who come from all over the world. But after a while no one seems out-of-place in the crowd; not even the pretty young Cuban bobby-soxers who come with their cameras and autograph books and wait for hours for a glimpse of their new national hero, Fidel Castro...
...walls of living rooms, in the naves of churches, on the sides of ships never turn out exactly as he would like, yet he is incontrovertibly one of the great painters of the age. If no one else knows it, he does, and he is content to wait...