Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devised such costly weapons as supersonic aircraft, attack and defense missiles, continent-wide radar-warning screens and atomic submarines. But it lags in a weapon that the Rockefeller Report last January warned would become "an increasingly important deterrent," i.e., fallout shelters in which the U.S. populace could wait out nuclear attacks. Last week the Administration took a halting step toward improving that deterrent. Appearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Defense and Civilian Mobilization Director Leo Hoegh outlined his program for public education on radiation, asked a modest $13,150,000 to get a prototype shelter program going...
...prosperity, the old regime neglected the immediate needs of the fellahin. "If everyone could fall asleep for ten years," Nuri is reported to have said once, "we would all wake up to something beautiful." But the fellahin in their mud slums, working for rapacious landlords, did not want to wait...
There are some people who have been waiting since the demise of i.e. The Cambridge Review for hopeful signs on the Harvard magazine scene. Like the Godot sojurn, this wait has been punctuated with a good deal of talk and some potato-chip philosophizing...
Among the prosperous Swiss, too, "wait-and-see has replaced the boom mentality," reports the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which forecast a 15% drop in industrial building projects for this year...
...Wait, don't forget dessert! Ice cream soup with apple-pie. Good use for the soup spoon...