Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wait a minute, now wait a minute," he will snarl after almost every statement. Then he bores in, sometimes filibustering to extended lack of effect, but sometimes digging out news that the briefing officer meant to pass over...
...draft casts both job and marriage into limbo. As Sandy Harper poutishly puts it: "There's just no use planning for the future. There isn't any future until we find out what's happening with the draft. I guess we'll just wait and see." Standard Oil can do no more...
...told to come back with another letter from Cal State testifying to his student status. He did. His induction was postponed, but only until Feb. 1. Grimly, Gary Wilson began a patient-and unrewarding-series of visits to the draft board office. "I'd go down there, wait three hours to see someone," he said, "and I'd get nowhere. I was getting the brushoff...
...Several times we asked when the announcement would come. A Buddhist Boy Scout told us in broken English to wait another five minutes. A man in a green uniform blandly assured us that it would deal with the reasons for the rebel fight against the Ky government. That hardly seemed worth summoning us to the pagoda, and it suddenly occurred to us that it might very well be a trap. If the rebels feared a government attack on Tinh Hoi, what better way to forestall it than by arranging the presence of three dozen foreign reporters inside the pagoda...
...predict what will happen between now and November in Vietnam, but whatever does happen will affect the results of the 1966 congressional elections. The Vietnamese--Catholics, Buddhists, or Viet Cong, General Ky or Ho Chi Minh--are hardly likely to stand still for the next few months and wait for the election returns. It seems safe only to say that the U.S. will not have gained either victory or peace by the time the electorate speaks in November...