Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impatient to wait for private enterprise to work its measured miracles, Menderes concurrently embarked on an immense government development program. Without much regard for cost, he opened new coal mines, expanded Turkey's single steel complex, constructed a dozen beet-sugar plants, started work on six huge new dams and threw up 1,250 miles of power lines-nearly seven times as many as there were in all Turkey in 1950. Above all, he concentrated on improving the lot of the peasants. He boosted crop subsidies, imported (with U.S. aid) 40,000 tractors, and between 1950 and 1956 increased...
...rousing operas, this time undertook to serve as librettist to his longtime friend Sam Barber. Menotti's yarn is like a pulse-bumping 19th century melodrama that lacks the courage of its afflictions. The lover, when he finally arrives, is not the man Vanessa was waiting for, but his son Anatol, a fatally charming young man who promptly seduces Vanessa's niece Erika. From there on the plot seems to thunder toward a traditional deathbed climax: Vanessa falls in love with Anatol, they announce their engagement, and pregnant Erika rushes out into the bitter, stormy night. Yet death...
When the Boston Symphony toured Russia two years ago, the members of the string section heaped praise on Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, who had played with the orchestra during his U.S. tour. Russian musicians countered with a standard response: wait until you hear Leonid Kogan. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week Violinist Kogan turned up with the Boston to demonstrate what his countrymen were talking about...
...refusing to yield war-torn Algeria. Politicians have held it up as treasure trove that would restore France to riches and greatness. The Hassi Messaoud field alone has estimated reserves of at least 200 million metric tons-ten times France's present annual consumption. With two years to wait for a full-sized 24-in. pipeline from the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast, the French strung the baby pipeline across 93 miles of desert from Hassi Messaoud northward to Touggourt and widened 120 miles of narrow-gauge railway to transport the oil from Touggourt to the coast. One barrel...
...Australia in 1949, may already be the finest freestylers in the world-a fact to make swimming experts boggle at what the pair might do in the next few years, as they grow to adult swimmers' estate. Said Coach Talbot: "We're only in second gear. Just wait till we get into high...