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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Straight ahead is a wall full of clippings from the Dallas Times-Her-old about Bonnie and Clyde. The crowd now finds out that they are like crowds in other museums: they're unselfish and patient. People crowd around the clippings, but they wait their turn. The newspapers have big pictures of the dead bodies, the bullet-riddled car, the crowds looking at the car and the bodies. The story describes it this way: "Both Barrow and the woman were instantly killed; Barrow being shot through the left temple and through the left shoulder. The Parker woman was shot through...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Welcome to the Dallas Wax Museum | 10/8/1969 | See Source »

...people quit because of the demands made upon their time by Harvard Old College. A lot more quit because they expected miracles without trying to cause them. If a New College group is successful, it is because the participants make it that way. If they sit back and wait, they'll probably be disappointed. Without the undeniably negative incentive of credit, many people will see no reason to keep on trying...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: Harvard New College Has Begun-Again | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

...warm Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, and the boys could hardly wait to try out their new toy rockets. Accompanied by a governess and a Secret Service man, John-John Kennedy, 8, and a playmate found an appropriate site in Central Park. While strollers stopped to stare, the boys successfully launched the plastic missiles, which, with the aid of a propellant of vinegar mixed with baking soda, rose about twelve feet into the air. John-John was so delighted by the performance that he blurted: "Now I have my own little Cape Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...friendly competition to win the favor of Georgia's Democratic reactionary Governor Lester Maddox. Aware that Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller had delivered a shiny orange bicycle to Maddox after Lester had jokingly complained about his lack of transportation, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller could hardly wait to upstage his brother. How did Maddox like the bike from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

John decided to stay at halfback permanently last fall. This year he is a starter. "I was confident that I'd start, but I just had to wait." he said...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Confident Ballantyne Hasn't Time for Politics | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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