Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory was the first and easiest of the four Senate hurdles that the Administration's program faces. Next week the committee's recommendation will go to the Senate floor, where such diehard foreign-aid enemies as Indiana's Jenner and Nevada's Malone lie in wait. Moreover, the Senate Appropriations Committee has yet to count out the actual money, and after that an economy-minded Senate will have to vote the funds...
...Khrushchev told it, the farm troubles about which he had had to "speak quite sharply" three or four years ago, were as good as over. And the predictions his experts had given him, of overtaking the U.S. by 1975, were too pessimistic. Their arithmetic was O.K., but to wait that long would be to "let the ideologists of the capitalist world go on prattling for too long a time. Let the comrade economists blush. Sometimes man must exceed his own strength by making a sudden spurt...
...weeks before election, Sam Newhouse's Journal had supported the losing ticket with more than 240 column-inches of editorials. The paper did not have to wait long for the showdown. At City Hall on election night 2,000 Murray supporters spotted five Journal reporters and advanced on the newsmen chanting: "Throw 'em out!" A flying wedge of police separated the reporters from the mob. At another end of the building, chief Journal Photographer Eric Groething, 32, raised his camera over his head and warned four angry men who had backed him against a wall: "The first...
Inheritance Tacks. In Tulsa. all buses of the Tulsa City Lines, which in a recent election lost its franchise to a new line, carried newly installed signs: "Why wait on a bus? Next time call a taxi...
Wherever Wyszynski goes, he makes it a practice to remain until the crowds that inevitably lie in wait for him have dispersed-so as to prevent demonstrations. When he says Mass, he usually emerges from the parish house about an hour after the service. Women kiss his ring, children cling to his robes, people grab at his hands. "Good souls, go home, please," he will say, "or I'll put a tax on you for the rebuilding of the church...