Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strauss sent a driver to haul the reluctant general back, explained in equally tough terms that he himself often had to wait half an hour or more for his boss, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and thought nothing of it. Then Strauss, who has a flair for the dramatic gesture to point a moral, sacked General Müller-Hillebrand and gave a one-word explanation of his action: "Insubordination." German newspapers seemed delighted...
...famed but fictitious merchant vessel,* simulated hell broke loose in the North Atlantic. Out to punish the "aggressors," a six-nation Blue fleet totaling nearly 160 fighting ships began steaming toward Norway. In the Iceland-Faeroes gap, 36 Orange submarines, including the atom-powered 'Nautilus, lay in wait. The U.S. destroyer Charles R. Ware was "sunk"; a "torpedo" slowed down the carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time beating off the assaults of Britain-based Valiant jet bombers. But by early afternoon, Blue carrier planes got through to make dummy atom attacks on Norway...
...Winter Wait. It was only after he returned to Baghdad that Feisal remembered protocol long enough to send the Premier of Iraq and the Chief of the Royal Palace hotfooting to Istanbul with a large diamond and emerald engagement ring...
...each day on crowded, filthy "native trains" whose hard plank seats are always jammed with sweating Africans, standing, squatting, sitting on laps or even riding the couplings between the decrepit cars. In these crowded human cattle cars, violence is quick to flare. Flashily dressed native gangsters, known as Tsotsis, wait to pounce upon the unwary worker, particularly on paydays, relieving him of his wallet and sometimes pushing him clean off the train if he resists. Even in the darkness of the stations and the roads near by, the Tsotsis wait to attack the worker as he races, blind with fear...
...Methodist who read her boys a Bible chapter every night until they went off to college. She wanted Egbert to be a preacher; he now regards religion as "more ethics than faith." She recalls him as a lad with a strong sense of duty and determination, who could not wait to grow up to his brothers' level. Typically, when a photographer was once posing the two brothers in their school clothes, little Egbert, not yet old enough for school, grabbed a book and crashed the picture with a mature scowl (see cut). He began earning money...