Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wait a Minute." At war's end Murphy returned to George Washington, got his law degree, was admitted to the District of Columbia bar. He had always wanted to be a lawyer, but he indulged himself by taking Foreign Service exams simply because "I was curious to see if I could pass them." He did-and in April 1921, he was offered a place in the U.S. consulate at Zurich. He talked it over with his bride of one month, a former Red Cross worker named Mildred Claire Taylor, and accepted. Says Murphy: "We decided...
...Policy. Treasury's Texan Anderson reached agreement with congressional Texans Johnson and Sam Rayburn to keep tax cuts out of politics, won a wait-and-see period. Result: notable absence of grass-roots demand for tax cuts helped Congress avoid political temptation, keep income, corporation and most excise taxes at present levels...
...infinitely complex and the potential consequences of another Mideastern explosion were incalculable. Yet, for all that, the great majority of delegates went to the fifth special session in the 13-year history of the Assembly armed with nothing more than what the Japanese engagingly called "a policy of positive wait...
Last week the new government began a campaign to tell them that they would still have to wait. Stumping the country by helicopter, Deputy Premier Colonel Abdul el-Sallam Mohammed Aref warned: "You must be patient. Everything cannot be solved in one hour, one day, or one month...
...Yorkers expected religious hysteria, they had to wait for baseball to come back. Without a hitch, in orderly procession, the Witnesses arrived aboard two chartered ships and 65 chartered planes, scores of special trains and buses, more than 20,000 cars-and all quickly learned which subways ran to the ballparks. There some 40 doctors and 125 nurses tended occasional dizzy spells or upset children; some 6,000 volunteers served as many as 70,000 meals an hour, and a tireless volunteer cleanup squad of 2,500 polished the parks to perfection at the end of each day. At night...