Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation, Nhat Hanh continued, because the longer the Americans perpetuate the war, the more peasants will go over to the Viet Cong. The U.S. should make the first move, he said, because it is to their tactical advantage and "because the U.S. is strong and does not have to wait for proposals from Hanoi. It can just stop positive attacks and remain on the defensive to demonstrate that the U.S. wants peace also...
...Valkyrie is sometimes known as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent "because of technical problems and its droopy, attenuated profile" [May 13]. Now wait just a darn minute! What the heck! Makes a sea serpent sore! When they run into technical problems on my network TV show, I'm known as the XB-70 Valkyrie...
...gone, the state's interests would have only lightweight representation by two freshman senators. Though Talmadge has not used his decade in Washington to advance his influence notably or to author any major legislation, he has had time to husband seniority. Only 52, he can well afford to wait his turn to chair the Agriculture Committee, where he is the fourth-ranking Democrat. By week's end, while still publicly playing the Hamlet role-to run or not to run-he was understood to have decided that Georgians after all desire him to stay on in the Senate...
...CRIMSON should have suggested that we wait until we see the Chinese threat more clearly lest we pointlessly stir up a U.S. Soviet competition that may be less easily aroused, one can hope in later years. Jeremy J. Stone
...takes wobbly aim at a problem created by the old law: the fact that thousands of New Yorkers seek quickie divorces in Nevada, if they can wait six weeks, or in Mexico, where a day suffices. All this evades the usual U.S. rule that divorces may be granted only by the state where one of the partners actually lives. To enforce that rule, the new law says that a New Yorker retains his domicile unless he gives up his New York residence for 18 months...