Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After being picked by President Johnson for the No. 2 post in the Agency for International Development, Rutherford ("Rud") Poats had to wait six months for Senate confirmation of his appointment. The opposition to Poats was led by Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, whose objections increasingly seemed to be motivated as much by vindictiveness as by vigilance. Last week his colleagues bypassed Bayh and voted down a motion that would have recommitted Poats's nomination to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senate then confirmed...
...were out and running. Their faces streaked with camouflage paint, their black and green "tiger suits" blending into the foliage, their black-stocked M-16 automatic rifles at the ready, they faded swiftly into the perennial twilight of 80-ft. trees, impenetrable bamboo thickets, and tangles of thorn and "wait a minute" vines. This was "Lurp Team Two," a long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, sent to seek out two Viet Cong regiments that their outfit was itching to locate, engage and destroy. Within moments, Team Two was itself in imminent danger of destruction...
...Napoleon I and Napoleon III. The British are so confident that they will eventually join that British leaders are urging farmers and industrialists to begin making preparations and adaptations that will be necessary for the tie-up. The British figure that they have a few years in which to wait and prepare-but not much more...
...Dunster House Committee, who drafted a 21-page report on the parietals poll in his House. He realized that so late in the year, after there had already been one change, there was no chance of success for the parietal proposal in the committee. Magraw chose to wait it out. The HUC never touched parietals during the whole time that Palazzo was collecting signatures on his various petitions and polls. The HUC just kept its hands clean. Magraw wouldn't be identified by the Masters and the Deans as one of those pushy Lowell House radicals. Then, at least, Magraw...
Voting by mail was introduced in 1921, and the original reason behind the five-year wait disappeared. No policy change was made at that time...