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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tricky combat terrain, U.S. troops have to develop all types of tricky tactics. A 32-man reconnaissance company of the 9th Cavalry Regiment has a new technique for getting out of their helicopters even before they land. In unsecured areas where the enemy may be lying in wait, the troops clamber out on the skids, and as the chopper flutters down to five or six feet above the landing area, they jump. They call themselves the "Headhunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Look Before Leaping | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Georgians who are unhappy over the segregationist position of both Maddox and Callaway-and who caused the dilemma by casting 48,439 votes for a write-in candidate-most likely will have to wait until the general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Up to the Legislature | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...presents that will prevent them from growing up to be "independent, autonomous people." In McCall's, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, author of the bestselling Games People Play, described some of the mean little games people play with Christmas gifts. "Mommies have a game for the younger children called 'Wait 'Til after Breakfast, Dear.' It may or may not develop the children's characters to hold off opening their gifts, but many mothers cannot resist the secret satisfaction that comes from enforcing this rule." Conversely, said Berne, "very small children cross their parents up by being more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: A Black Christmas | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...rest of the world. But now I think that Hollywood is as real as New York or as real as London or as real as Venice. There's no place I'd rather be. When I'm away for very long, I can't wait to get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Caretaker, The Homecoming). Did he do it to make money? No doubt, but he also did it to make propaganda. Editing the facts of life in modern Germany to fit an evident prejudice, Pinter blandly but incessantly insinuates that all Germans are still Nazis at heart and can hardly wait to go to heil again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nasties for Noel | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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