Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy earned more than $1,000,000 by short-selling in 1929-30. Among the other famous bears who got into the honey in the Depression were Tom Bragg and "Sell 'em Ben" Smith. One day Smith picked up a phone to make a call, but Bragg bellowed: "Wait a minute-I'm short of Telephone. Don't give them any business now." Smith shot back: "Aw, I'm shorting Telephone myself, Tom. After I get done with this thing, I pick it up and drag it after me, wire and all. See?" Then Sell...
...prospect now seems unrealistic. (Another answer, advanced early and supported with great zeal by Mrs. Kennedy, was to create a lively, variegated commercial district of small shops, restaurants, and book stores that would attract and hold the local population of students, intellectuals and young professionals; one will have to wait for I.M. Pei's final masterplan to see how much this idea has survived...
...mystery compounds itself when he finds one of the walls is a gigantic one-way mirror. On the other side of it, unseen in the adjacent room, a staff of graduate and undergraduate observers wait in anticipation, their tape recorders ready for his first words, their trained minds poised to categorize his stumbling first-thoughts...
Escape was constantly on Dengler's mind, but the prisoners decided to wait until monsoons had swollen the streams and rivers down which they hoped to float. On June 29 they made their break. Dengler slipped his footcuffs, grabbed four rifles and a bag of rice while the guards were eating. The prisoners killed six of their captors in a flurried firefight, then split into pairs in hopes of making their escape route difficult to follow...
...dazzling display of sleight-of-hand, the main stage can drop 28 ft. into the subterranean storage chambers and emerge with a teahouse, garden, bridge and cherry orchard all ready for Madame Butterfly's entrance. Meanwhile, the three wagons can be loaded with upcoming scenes and wait to glide into the center-stage slot at the push of a.button. For other effects, the backstage Merlins can conjure up storms and floods, encircle Brunnhilde in flame and smoke, or simply change night into day by unreeling one of two massive 110-ft. by 270-ft. cycloramas. For more subtle moods...