Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly wait for those new models. I haven't really stopped laughing at the current ones...
Oklahoma's burly, scrappy Robert Samuel Kerr is a Democratic multimillionaire (Kerr-McGee Oil) who snap-shoots from the hip when he hears a rustling in the brush. Indiana's jowled Homer Earl Capehart is a Republican millionaire (Capehart radio-TV) who usually prefers to wait for another day. Last week Snap-Shooter Bob pressed Hesitant Homer too far, and the Senate echoed with high-priced debate. Subject: Dwight Eisenhower's brains...
...rural county in eastern North Carolina, Negroes complained that it took a white man only a few minutes to. get registered, while Negroes often had to wait an hour; thus only a small percentage of Negroes was registered. In Green County, Ala. Negro registrants had to be accompanied and vouched for by "a good white man." In Caldwell Parish, La. the registrar refused to accept whites as witnesses for Negroes because they were of a different race...
...Minute's Wait, the longest and best of the lot, is a back-thwacking, shillyshally riot of slapstick. A train-a gruesome Irish hybrid of the Toonerville Trolley and a Long Island Railroad local -pulls into Dunfaill for a minute's stop. Its motley passengers immediately spill out into the station bar and some hilarious vignettes. To make room for a goat, a bewildered British couple are demoted from their first-class compartment into third, there to rub insensitive feelers with a slithering mess of outraged Irish lobsters. A sweater-girl (full-blown by Maureen Connell) snares...
...week, "and she said, 'You know, Nat, with your show going on like it is, maybe some day I'll get one.' I hear other Negro performers are pushing their agents to get them TV shows, but the agents say, 'We've got to wait and see what Nat's show does...