Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senseless waste of energies. Instead, Nixon & Co. mapped three tours, one to touch as many states as possible, a second to concentrate on the weak spots, a third to work intensively in important and crucial areas. Convinced that the Democrats had started their campaign too early, Nixon decided to wait until mid-September, aim his campaign to reach its peak in the latter half of October, then sustain the high pitch right up to election day. With the geography and the basic strategy settled, he gathered a staff of aides-most of them tested in the "Nixon Fund" days...
...choked to a stop. With both outboard engines out of commission, Captain Ogg knew for certain now that he could not make the 1,000 miles to San Francisco-that he would have to ditch. Rather than dump gas and risk a night landing, he decided to wait till daylight and let the plane exhaust its heavy fuel load. He so notified the Coast Guard weather-watch cutter, Pontchartrain, some comfortable ten miles to the west. Pontchartrain's skipper, Commander William K. Earle, radioed the best course (330°) for ditching into the running swell, and the time...
During the long wait for daylight, he switched the seat-belt sign off, told his passengers to light their cigarettes, relax. The conditions for ditching, he assured them, were "ideal." The water temperature was 74°, the sea calm...
When Wookey reached the chamber, he waited ten minutes while the pressure in his helmet was reduced to the pressure in the chamber (about 110 Ibs. per sq. in.). Then he climbed into the chamber itself, and Clucas took the front glass off his helmet. "He was so cold," said Clucas. "So very cold. He could hardly stand up when he reached me." The two men sat down for a long, dull, eight-hour wait, supplied with candy, hot coffee, reading matter...
...Harvard 33 but only tipped the ball up toward Spraker, who gathered it in on the 25 and loped across for the winning score at 12:02. It appeared that if the ball had not been tipped up, Spraker would still have caught it but would have had to wait for it and could not have scored...