Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble was, cycling fans who turned up in Cleveland last week were so untutored in the tactics of six-day racing that they could not tell the leaders from the losers. The best they could do as they tried to untangle the action was wait for the tangible excitement of big spills-and there were plenty. At week's end seven teams were within a lap of the lead, but the fans seemed to care more for spectacle than speed...
Under these circumstances, said Gulf, it was "impractical for the company to continue." Moreover, if Gulf accepted a 60-40 deal in Italy, it would jeopardize its 50-50 deals with countries such as Ku wait, where Gulf owns half of the West's third-biggest oil producer. Last week Gulf sold its half interest in Petrosud, its mainland subsidiary, to the big Montecatini Chemical complex (TIME, Jan. 21), its partner in the enterprise. Gulf will press ahead in semi-autonomous Sicily where operations are governed by a more favorable oil law. This week, as Gulf's field...
...eggs sing duets as they lie in wait...
...gotten away from the frightened effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with inscrutable smiles and tough wisecracks. The line, "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade spits out to the girl he loves as he turns her in to the police, sets him forever apart from the race of love-sick weaklings...
...Wilson will perform two more such operations, then wait six months to observe results before recommending wide adoption of the Gorman joint. But he has high hopes for it. Moving parts are metal against metal, lubricated by body fluids, so no foreign material is in moving contact with human tissue (which has caused trouble in some earlier plastic and metal restorations). Made of Stellite (a chromium-cobalt alloy), the joint should outlast the life of the recipient, with no corrosion...