Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic dinner in Nashville, Tenn.: "I will admit that it is sometimes difficult to discover exactly what [Administration] foreign policy is. When the President says one thing, the Vice President says another and the Secretary of State takes a third course, there is little we can do but wait for Jim Hagerty to correct the record...
Georgia's Racist Senator Herman Talmadge theorized that the bombing might be a plot of Communists, but Atlanta's 68-year-old Mayor William B. Hartsfield did not need to wait for his police to act before he knew the real criminals: "Every political rabble-rouser is the godfather of these cross burners and dynamiters who sneak about in the dark." Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill: "Let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish...
State-owned restaurants are divided into Class I, II and III, which is translated by Poles as "poor, terrible and atrocious." There remain a few privately owned restaurants, but they differ from the state-owned only in the fact that the customer may have to wait 20 instead of 30 minutes before his presence is acknowledged by the sullen and inefficient staffs. On an average Warsaw evening, nearly every restaurant is the scene of brawls and near brawls between outraged customers and stony-eyed waiters...
...Ready to Wait. For Indiana's enterprisers, who are bidding for a choice zone around the capital city of Riyadh, Tariki hiked his opening demand to a 60-40 profit split, also "integrated1' right up to the gas pump. Indiana's President John Eldred Swearingen publicly rejected these terms last week, but was obviously ready to bargain further. Foreign oilmen pointed out that Tariki's deal with the Japanese promised at best small profit in limited markets, and only after years of waiting; Western companies alone, with their tanker fleets, refining facilities and extensive marketing systems...
...order expelling Nasser's ambassador from Beirut. The gesture reflected Lebanon's new-style neutralism -a desire to live in harmony with both the West and with Nasser, though becoming an ally of neither. And that was quite all right with the U.S., whose troops can hardly wait to leave...