Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cronin Doyle, 18, "and the train would sway, and then some woman would scream." It took police five hours to assist everybody across a precarious, 11-in.-wide catwalk running 35 ft. from the train tracks to the bridge's roadway. All told, 2,000 trapped passengers preferred to wait it out?including 60 who spent 14 hours in a stalled train under the East River...
...Wait in Line No More...
...experiment produces unexpected results, the scientist currently must wait in line to use the accelerator to reproduce the conditions for closer study...
Mothers Must Wait. To wipe out a projected $1.75 billion deficit in the 1966 budget, the government slashed its defense outlay, aid to Berlin, civil service pensions and civil-defense spending. While it refrained from boosting corporate or consumer taxes for fear of inviting a recession, it symbolically hiked the tax on two national luxuries: sparkling wine, of which the Germans now consume more than the French, and schnapps. Most important, Erhard announced plans to renege on some of his party's pre-election promises by paring or postponing bills that were to give bigger handouts to his country...
...Though the film is largely shot from the girl's viewpoint, we share her imagination and not, alas, her thoughts. The only sense of breakdown stems from her increasingly lurid hallucinations: walls turn to putty or open in great cracks; hands poke through to feel her breasts, and rapists wait patiently in her bed. Photographed in deep shadow, often with a swinging camera, such scenes look old-fashioned and crude. Films have developed more sensitive means of conveying states of consciousness than expressionism...