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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work that has been done on this proposal since its conception four days ago, the plan is still very much "in the planning stage. It has not been decided," Taylor explained, "whether or not it would be better to get a student to enter College this midyears or to wait till the fall...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Kirkland House Plans Hungarian Scholarship | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

Question has been raised as to whether or not there is, at present, a broad enough field for selection, and over the fact that it might be best to wait until the tension of the last few month's experiences diminishes before a candidate is chosen...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Kirkland House Plans Hungarian Scholarship | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

...black slush is waging an all-out war against man, and winning. What was once snow now looks like low-grade mud, feels like cold porridge, and acts with a diabolical intelligence. This Cambridge variety preys on nice elderly ladies with full shopping bags and weak ankles, lying in wait to capitalize upon the slightest mis-step. Faint yips are all that remain of a dog who attempted to cross the Square; six Volkswagens so far have disappeared into Massachusetts Avenue; and a small child who slipped from his mother's hand and wandered into the street has not been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Cold Our Toes, Tiddley-Poom | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

Important Key. Democratic Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had already agreed on their general policy: they would wait for the Eisenhower Administration to present its program, deal with the proposals pretty much on their merits, hold off until 1958 (an election year) before unwrapping their own party-labeled legislative package. The Republicans faced a sterner test of congressional leadership. If the 1956 elections proved nothing else, they showed that the G.O.P. cannot depend even upon Ike's popularity to give it control of Congress; the key to an improved Republican congressional electoral showing lies in an improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work for the 85th | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wyo., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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