Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jolly Boys." Just before Oregon, a Midwestern Republican summed up the G.O.P. presidential situation this way: "Everybody's waiting for California. A Goldwater loss there would have a tremendous effect. The jolly boys back East would go to work in a rush. But there's nothing they can do now except wait for a break...
...Massachusetts to make the first run of his life for elective office? Well, there are problems there too. Democratic Governor Endicott Peabody is up this fall for a second two-year term, but it would hardly seem sporting for Bobby to shove him aside. He could, of course, wait until 1966 and run for Republican Lev Saltonstall's Senate seat, but Brother Teddy is already in the Senate, and even Massachusetts might feel that one Senator Kennedy at a time is enough...
Seasons by Decree. Bertie had to wait another 40 years before he became King. But as heir apparent, he set the style of English society for nearly half a century, determining who should be included and who excluded and where one should go when. The social year, as decreed by Bertie, consisted of two months (January and February) of shooting at Sandringham, two months (March and April) on the French Riviera, followed by three months in London for "the Season." No gentleman was seen in London after the end of July, when the Prince of Wales went to Cowes...
Queues of grey-faced office workers, all clutching the inevitable scuffed briefcases, wait meekly outside shops that offer limited supplies of costly, clumsily packaged frozen meat and fish. Ancient streetcars labor creakily through streets empty of all but the lightest traffic. What few private automobiles there are seem to have escaped from an antique museum. When the government recently began issuing drivers' licenses, many battered Buicks and monstrous Mercedes of prewar vintage returned to the streets after years of exile in garages. Czechoslovakia's railroads, once among the best in Central Europe, today are the worst, and their...
...forms are "Boys" and "Girls." "Sometimes we tell girls who apply that on a different trip from the one they want, there'll be a better balance of boys and girls," says Burke. "Nine out of ten write back and say, 'By all means, I'll wait.' And guys will write in and say, 'I want a trip with a lot of girls.' That's fine by us. We let 'em know when...