Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airliners carrying the troupe found the London airport weathered in, had to land miles away at a U.S. fighter base in Mansion, Kent. But last week in London's Royal Opera House the curtain rose at last, and only ten minutes late. The show proved worth the wait...
...only do reporters have some difficulty filing their stories, but they sometimes have trouble getting them on time. "Stevenson will not let any paragraph go through in an advanced text that he doesn't approve of completely," one reporter said, "so we sometimes miss our deadlines by having to wait for his speeches." The President's press secretary, Jim Hagerty, on the other hand, has always been able to meet the reporters' times, even resorting to threats of quitting if the President did not accept what he had written...
...Just walk through that door to the rear of the stage and wait for directions," said the round man at the side entrance of the Opera House as he checked our identification. Mr. Nordus, with a spray of flags across the lapel of his tails that made him look like a distinguished veteran of the Pacific campaign rather than the conductor of the Ballet Orchestra, stepped aside as we filed in. He was in the process of greeting Boston friends or relatives in a flurry of Danish, ending up with "I'll see you later...
...could wait out a victory. Davis pointed out, but the victory might well turn out to be no victory at all. Next day, in a brief and dignified statement, he withdrew from the race. "My interpretation of the ballots," he said, "does not show the very substantial majority which my government believes should be given to the next director-general of the organization...
...million surplus last year. Financiers argue that France should devalue its franc (officially 350 to the dollar, actually 405 and up) to boost exports, and take drastic steps to clean economic house. But France so far has shown little talent for house cleaning. How long will West Germany wait for France and Britain to put their financial houses in order? As German trade and financial security grows stronger, the situation will only get worse. Eventually, unless something is done soon, West Germany may be forced to go it alone, free its currency and trade regardless of its neighbors-that...