Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who wait for Communism to change, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev crowed not long ago with a bravado that impressed much of the world, "might better wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." The eerie sound that penetrated the Kremlin last week from out of satellite-land was suspiciously like just such a whistle. Communism's leaders watched their authority flouted, their names assailed, their puppets overthrown, their flags torn down, their soldiers shooting down workers. In a few short days, these unpleasant truths were thrust upon the Soviet high command...
...they continue to appease the satellites, move cautiously ahead with more concessions and hope to achieve the "national Communism" they were prepared to accept? Or should they renounce the liberalization policy (and throw out its discredited advocate, Khrushchev), return to the iron ways of Stalin, crush opposition ruthlessly, and wait for a new generation to grow...
...Sultan should be among the first to hear that his hospitality was being violated, Pilot Grellier was also told to radio his new destination back to Rabat. Seeing the report, the Moroccan Minister of Works cried, "This is pure piracy," and ordered instructions sent to Pilot Grellier to wait at Majorca until further notice. The plane was on the ground and the passengers drinking in the bar when the order should have arrived. But the French radio operator in Rabat simply neglected to send the message. The DC-3 took off again, bound for Algiers. Minister Lacoste had been...
...rules are simple as mud. First, never drink if you have any work to do. Never. Secondly, never drink alone. That's the way to become a drunkard. Thirdly, even if you haven't got any work to do, never drink while the sun is shining. Wait until it's dark...
...meet the vice president of a cemetery company who yearns to write ad copy like "Inter here. A lot for your money." Or the off-key executive who plays Cupid by posting a lonely young man in an empty cubbyhole in the piano warehouse with no duties except to wait for the right girl to come along. She does. Saroyan alternates his fictional eccentrics with spiked nonfictional vignettes presumably drawn from his own true life, e.g., Saroyan as Tom Sawyer wriggling his canny way past movie ushers for free, Saroyan as a struggling "unproven" artist peddling vegetables during the Depression...