Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soak freeze-dried chicken breasts in four times their weight of vin ordinaire. Wait (about 30 minutes) until all wine is absorbed. Then . . ." But first, see SCIENCE, Freeze-Dried Food...
...part," he wrote in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But he was frank to admit that he was often afraid. "I think what frightens me most is that when I have actually lost control of the car there is absolutely nothing I can do except sit still, frozen with fear, and wait for events to take their natural course. All it requires is one very small error and one is embarrassingly dead...
...those days a merchant often had to wait years before his expended capital came home with a profit. Because of slow transportation, storms, piracy and outbreaks of plague, trade and profit margins were so precarious as to give ulcers to the steeliest modern businessman. Many a modern businessman will, in fact, find a good deal of himself reflected in Datini. He lived in a state of constant, wretched anxiety-"so vexed with many matters," he groaned, "it is a wonder I am not out of my mind.'' When he slept, nightmares about a crumbling house destroyed his rest...
...Brother. In Vancouver, Wash., Patrolman Ted Slothower drove downtown on his day off, went into a store to get parking-meter change, had to wait briefly in line, came out to find the city's only other full-time meter patrolman had tagged...
...Crimson jumping into a slight lead, Princeton about a deck length behind, and the rest of the crews wallowing in their wash. As the race progressed, the varsity, rowing a steady 31, maintained this lead over Princeton, while the Tigers, stroking 32, were content to lay back and wait for the finish...