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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wait till you see Playhouse go" matronly Party Giver Perle Mesta was telling everybody in Hollywood last week. "You'll feel sorry for me." Perle was right, but for the wrong reasons. She had hoped to de-emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...First? In Nottingham. England, Prison Commissioner Duncan Fairn complained that girls who wait outside infamous Dartmoor Prison to see prisoners are giving the place a bad name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...voting last week, Zik and his party picked up a probable 77 out of 84 seats in the Eastern Region's legislative assembly. Zik was already demanding full self-government for his third of the nation, no longer willing to wait for all of Nigeria to get its independence at once. Said the ever-cocky Zik: "After 96 years of tutelage, to say we cannot now run ourselves is a reflection not on the student but on the teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: People's Choice | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...will wait a day or two. We are not a nation that easily loses faith...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Magsaysay, Philippine President, Dies in Crash of Private Plane; Israel Blames U.N. for Gaza Crisis | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...history of the Arab world." But King Saud had lingered on in Libya, and his plane touched down at Cairo's airfield a negligent six hours late. The Convair's automatic steps failed to function, and Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser had to wait an awkward several moments more before Saud stepped down into his welcoming embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Split Among the Arabs | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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