Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loosely drawn." While he concedes that the President's State of the Union address well "expressed the dreams of Americans," Ford cautions that "as legislators, our responsibility is to see how the Administration intends to do it and what it's going to cost. I'll wait before passing judgment...
...destroyed by antibody from the Rh-negative mother. If the damage was moderate, obstetricians delivered the baby prematurely and gave it transfusions of Rh-negative blood. But if the fluid showed severe damage when the fetus was still too premature for delivery, the obstetrician could only sit back and wait for a malign nature to take its course...
...marriage, it seemed, had been arranged by Ruskin's and the girl's parents. According to Effie, on the wedding night Ruskin, who was 29, told his bride that sexual intercourse was irreligious and that, at 20, she was too young to consummate a marriage. She must wait five years, he said. She waited, showing "restiveness," which Ruskin said he feared was due to "incipient insanity." After six years the marriage was annulled "by reason of [Ruskin's] incurable impotency...
...Rosie long enough to propose to her. She was 18 and he 47. She told him to wait three years. Off he went to wait, pathetically telling all to the patient Lady Mount-Temple and her husband. If Rosie were to love another, he wrote, "I would do all for her - bear - if it were necessary -to see them together all day - be their footman and walk behind them - nay - be their servant after they were married - if they needed it - I don't think her father loves her so well as that." He and Rosie, who kept stalling...
...wonk, you want to go in with me on a real good thing? WONK: What's the deal? TOWNIE: We can get half a pound of Sano for only seventy-five. WONK: Yow, where?! TOWNIE: You front me the bread and I'll go get it. WONK: Now wait a minute, how do I know you won't burn me? TOWNIE: Well, like, I can't bring you up there, because the cat I'm scoring from--he's, like, paranoid...