Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directorate of Astronautics had indeed been set up "prematurely" and "contrary to assurances." oint was that the Pentagon intends soon ) set up its own Advanced Research Projects Agency (TIME, Dec. 16) designed both to develop fantasy weapons id to minimize service rivalries and headline-grabbing. The Air Force will wait, said Secretary Douglas, until its own space plans can be "coordinated with the specific plans for the new agency...
Under the law, which takes effect July 1, a couple marrying in Mississippi must wait three days for their license; pass blood tests, prove that the bride is at least 15 and the groom 17. Minors need parental consent; circuit clerks will routinely notify the parents by registered mail during the three-day waiting period. Circuit judges may waive the routine only for grievous reason, e.g., pregnancy...
...faculty opposition came from those who felt that "the psychiatrist should not anticipate mental trouble, but should wait for it and then cure...
...London, and from Lewisham to Hammersmith, scarcely a car moved. Buses inched along the streets and trains moved cautiously along their rights of way. The 5:18 from Charing Cross to Kent that evening ground to a stop just past St. John's station to wait its turn at Park's Bridge Junction, which Londoners call the "busiest strip of railway line in the world." The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years...
...much of what he says applies to many intellectuals elsewhere-their futurism, their dogmatic opposition to religion, their slavish conformity to the stale attitudes of "nonconformity," their long willingness to excuse Soviet crimes in the name of a higher aim (scathingly, Aron asks why so many had to wait for the Hungarian massacres to become indignant when the purge trials, the slave labor camps, the Katyn massacre, the mass deportations should have been enough). Says Aron: "Both American liberals and the Left in France and Britain share the same illusion: the illusion of the orientation of history in a constant...