Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much time throwing pamphlets under our doors prior to an election, but who become quite inactive after the results have been tabulated. I have had the most unsatisfactory experience of arriving for a council meeting at seven o'clock--the time for which they are called--and having to wait anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half for the meeting to commence. Sometimes the wait will be a full week, since often a quorum cannot be mustered...
...next day-Georgetown University's Francis M. Forster, the Army's Lieut. Colonel Roy E. Clausen, Columbia University's Houston H. Merritt and James F. Hammill-though they confirmed the findings of Ike's regular doctors. As for treatment, all they could advise was wait and see, combined with a stress-free routine. They prescribed plenty of rest for Ike, but not the total inertia that was, until recently, standard for victims of strokes, however mild. The only medication that the President got, even in the first stages of his illness, was a mild sedative. Beyond...
...these apartments can only accommodate one-seventh of the demand. The remainder of the married graduate students is forced to devise expedients. Everybody finds something. Some live in trailers; others take big apartments and rent rooms. Often, two couples share a small apartment while they wait for an opening at the Housing Trust. The length of time on the waiting list is largely a matter of luck. For some, it is a matter of two or three weeks; others wait months in cramped quarters. Mrs. F. K. Patterson, assistant director of the Harvard Wives, says that married students are generally...
...those who are lucky enough to get into Holden Green or Shaler Lane, the wait is worthwhile. Reasonable rent, clean paint, and a five-minute bicycle ride ("with practice," one student asserted) are the rewards. For those who obtain private rentals through the Housing Trust, the results are not quite so fortunate...
After fifteen long hours yesterday, scientists and reporters at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute finally ended their wait for the expected launching of the first United States satellite...