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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corrupt Practices. There is "no room" in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for any officer "commonly known" to be "a crook, a racketeer, a Communist or a fascist." Says the code: "A union need not wait upon a criminal conviction" to fire such officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Out with Crooks & Gangsters | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said last night he would have to adopt a "wait and see" attitude regarding the status of William Worthy Jr., Nieman fellow presently in Budapest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lyons Delays Judgment on Worthy Case | 2/8/1957 | See Source »

...appetite and a passion, is now thought to be rather 'infra dig' in people of intelligence; students make it a habit to settle on a very few authors, or, if possible, one author, whom, they undertake to comprehend entirely and to make their own; or to wait until they can conceive a 'problem' suitable to their talents before they read...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Lionel Trilling Asks Reader to Be Alert | 2/8/1957 | See Source »

Councilor Hyman Pill reminded Curry that he had promised that the city workers in Cambridge would be the best payed in the state. The workers then agreed to wait until the "cherry-sheets" arrived. "We will see if the city manager will support our interest as he has supported the interests of the masters," concluded Jeremiah F. Sheah, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor Chiefs Attack Curry In Pay Debate | 2/5/1957 | See Source »

...corn Wait for the last mummer, dread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of Life & Death | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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