Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against it." By his tactics last week, Smith made sure that nothing would happen until at least mid-April. If he can stall for another month after that, nearly everyone agrees that the bill will be lost in the rush of House business-and Alaska will have to wait months or years longer...
...uncommitted countries." Best of all, when a second-class nation needs help, it can declare itself uncommitted: "Response is prompt. The West suggest a loan of countless dollars repayable over two thousand years: the East offer the free labor of twenty million skilled Siberians. Second-class powers can hardly wait for China to become fully first-class. Three sources of foreign aid are better than...
...Asia Minor, made a vow to a 15-year-old girl. Never would he be "lured by an American beauty"; when his fortune was made, he would send back to the Turkish village of Yala-zik for his beloved Soultana, and they would be married. Soultana promised to wait for him. That...
...himself formal command over both the Soviet government and the Communist Party. No man except Stalin had held both jobs simultaneously before (Malenkov held both for a few transitional days in 1953 ), and even Stalin, who could have taken the premiership any time he chose, found it wise to wait 19 years for what...
Based on that expectation of seasonal comeback, the Administration for weeks had fought for a wait-and-see period before giving in to increasing demands for drastic, perhaps reckless, action against recession. March unemployment figures, President Dwight Eisenhower assured the nation in a special economic message last Feb. 12, should improve. Why? The answer: Spring...