Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointed out that other nations have already learned a lesson of television. "The Chinese say one picture is worth a thousand words. I submit we put our electronic age to work. Are we going to wait for them to have the picture?", he asked...
Harvard's shuffle offense was both a blessing and a curse. Holy Cross's man-to-man defense was mucilaginous, so the Crimson had to wait patiently for its shots. The shuffle usually succeeded in giving Sedlacek or Dressler a little room to pop in a jump shot...
...English, the prevalent language of commerce and technology. Virtually all the space-age terms he defines in the Swedish-English volume he filtered out of TIME'S columns. Gullberg says: "Many of TIME'S own neologisms have come to stay in the language." We can't wait to see how a few of our recent coinages-non-book, Vietnik, op art-are minted into Swedish...
...trooper, blood squirted all over him. Crawling on, he made it to a small creek and hid in the elephant grass, wrapping his T shirt around his mangled left hand. Then, without food, without equipment, with only a few water purification tablets, Braveboy settled down for a week-long wait...
Adams was indignant, and so was the proud and subtle Jay. But wise old Franklin advised the younger men to wait patiently for the main chance, and in the spring of 1782 it came. Lord Shelburne, soon to be named Prime Minister of England, invited Franklin to initiate a correspondence. A few weeks later Richard Oswald, a sagacious Scot, arrived in Paris with authority to negotiate. Franklin dutifully informed Vergennes, and then informed Oswald of the principal American peace conditions: "compleat independence," territorial integrity, freedom to fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, freedom to navigate the Mississippi, no treaty...