Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basically, there are only so many ways to wait-standing up, sitting down, leaning over, slumping, and lying flat. But customers and patients, applicants and clients, all take a cue from their common mission, find a suitable code. Couples found in adoption-agency reception rooms affect an air of simple good taste (no jewelry other than religious medals), shun cigarettes, hum strains of lullabies every now and then. The same couple, accompanying their college-aged son to the admissions office of a select university, will dress with understated dash (a necklace of wooden, hand-painted beads for her, suede elbow...
Thursday's postponement was the second, according to Maher. "The judge wants to wait until the Supreme Court has decided on two other cases involving travel to Cuba," he explained...
Athenagoras and the patriarchs of Anti och, Alexandria and Jerusalem want the conference to set a definite time and place, as soon as possible. The Russians, on the other hand, want to wait until the Vatican Council is over. All the churches agree that one condition for the dialogue is acceptance by Rome of the Orthodox as equal partners, not as schismatics petitioning for a return to the fold. The delegates also agreed unanimously to form a committee of prelates who would inform the Pope of the conference's proposed ground rules for the discussion...
...hangs up his stocking at Christmas," said Liston, "and he has to wait until he wakes up in the morning to see what he got. Clay is like that kid. He'll know what happened when he wakes up." Bookmakers agreed: they installed Liston as a 1-2 favorite to become the second man in history (the other: Floyd Patterson) to regain the heavyweight championship...
...Broad Street station and the mile-long stretch of elevated tracks behind it that had been known as "the Chinese Wall." At the same luncheon when the railroad announced its decision, Bacon presented what he called "a challenging proposal" for development of the entire area. "If you wait until someone else does a plan, you're licked," says Bacon. "We always have a proposal ready." The plan, worked out with a young architect named Vincent Kling, called for a sunken garden concourse three blocks long, lined with shops, bridged by the cross streets and straddled by three 20-story office...