Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McElroy's public spirit took him to a luncheon for the president of Columbia University, who needed $25,000 to help finance Columbia's American Assembly, a series of conferences on public issues. After Columbia's president explained the project, McElroy asked him to "wait around for a few moments while I nail this thing together." On the spot he raised the $25,000, and Columbia's Dwight D Eisenhower was most impressed...
Occasionally Lehmann interrupted a singer with a general comment (she recalled Strauss's own advice to her: "Have the courage to stand still"), sometimes spoke delightedly of a favorite passage: "This is one of the wonderful moments that the conductor has to wait for the singer." Said one of her awed young pupils: "I have learned just by being near her. She must have been a fantastically great artist...
...colleges had had an agreement under which all students were notified of admission or rejection on the same fixed date in the second or third week of may. The new plan has been adopted in an effort to relieve, for at least a few, the tension of the long wait, according to Miss Ballou...
Under the field generalship of 5 ft. 9 in. guard Stan Needleman, the New Yorkers play a slow, deliberate game and wait for the good shot. Their conservative style of play, in sharp contrast to the play of last year's fire-house five, enabled the Lions to upset Cornell by four points in their only League encounter to date...
Announcer on Radio--Well, there it is for the first time, "Baby, You Jes' Wait." If you liked it, why not give us a call and tell...