Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was some question whether Frankie was really quite well when he brusquely turned down an offer from Brigitte Bardot to go to London to discuss a movie. "I can't wait," said Frankie. "I gotta be in Boston. Senator Kennedy is a friend of mine, and I promised." Finally, Frankie made a return volant to the U.S., still determinedly withholding his paw sinister from the gold circlet that anyone might wish to slip on his finger...
...about what he was working on, or even whether he was working toward any specific goal; but Hall and Ford often ran into him in the library, saw him picking up his books and putting them into his green book bag, and students ringing his doorbell frequently had to wait until he came down the three long flights from his study...
...offices of justice are slow to act, Harvard men may be forced to respond to the words of Gabby Spinoza: "Why wait for the law? Let's string...
...bitterness it has caused, may, however, have increased the troubles for the new system rather than eased them. In view of the unfairness to the present cheerleaders, and in view of the very tentative advantages of the UAC scheme itself, the Council might well have done better to wait half a year. And its new cheerleaders may agree when, with one week's practice, they man the megaphones for the first time in Palmer Stadium...
...fact, a skillful apologist for the German people." Cassandra was unmoved by Heuss's contribution of ?5,000 ($14,000) for windows for the rebuilt cathedral of Nazi-blitzed Coventry: "We want no apologetic tips on our national tombs . . . All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come sidling up to us saying it was all just a big mistake...