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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Gomulka has shown himself increasingly jumpy over press criticism, and the students found the square thick with steel-helmeted police. The police and militia did not wait for speeches or explanations. They ordered the students to disperse, then waded in with rubber truncheons swinging, viciously clubbed many students who refused to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Riot in Warsaw | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...that his daughter's marriage to her 30-year-old, former prep school English teacher had taken place three hours before Porcello, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, and his Roman Catholic wife hadn't objected to their daughter's choice, merely wanted her to wait until she was older. Last week, in New York Magistrate's court, contrite Dr. Porcello ("I am glad that I did not hit a window; the hand of God prevented that") received a suspended sentence. He also learned a lesson in church law: the church may permit priests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unreasonable Parents | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Wait for the mortar shell...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: A Visit to Big Sur | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

THERE was a new stir around Florida's Cape Canaveral, in U.S. missileland. On the hot, palmetto-studded beach, Photographer Stan Wayman, on assignment for TIME, set up his camera, trained its long telescopic lens in the direction of four gantry towers two miles away, and waited. The wait turned into a monotonous, week-long vigil. The monotony was relieved by the arrival of his wife with an ice chest and a bottle of champagne. It was the Waymans' seventh anniversary; they celebrated it on the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...traitor"-in an attempt to explain the ambiguities of the Croatian farm boy who managed to outwit and outfight the Nazis, defy his allies of both East and West, survive the deadly infighting in his own Yugoslav Communist Party and, so far, dodge the assassins who lie in wait for tyrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Who Survived | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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