Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect takeoff erased all the embarrassments of delay. One tiny plug carelessly left in an oxygen line had delayed the launch for 48 hours. Poised on the pad, the big bird had to wait impatiently while Air Force planes tracked down the noisy radio of a ship slogging along offshore. But now Saturn SA-5, biggest and most powerful rocket ever fired aloft, was rising above Cape Kennedy as routinely as any operational missile...
...TELEPHONES could once be activated by merely speaking the number with eyes closed, then had to be worked by coordinating eye and forefinger, and now, with the advent of all-digit dialing, demand intellectual concentration as well. But wait. A device called Dial-A-Word has come to the rescue. A plastic disk that slips over a dial gives a choice of two consonants for every number, which can then be combined with vowels (which are placed so that they don't register) to translate any combination of digits into an easily remembered phrase. Thus the number...
...College's Office of Graduate and career Plans in the past has recommended to many students that they wait a year before deciding whether to enter a graduate school. The drop in the average are of draftees--a result of President Kennedy's order exempting married men from the draft--means that graduating seniors will have to chose immediately between grad school and the Army...
...only are men being called up for pre-induction physicals sooner, but they are also entering the Army more quickly than before. "Last year when we'd call a boy for his physical, he might have a five or six months wait before being drafted. Now if a boy takes his physical in January he'll be in the Army by February, or March at the latest," a Boston draft board official said...
This means that a man, who is called for a pre-induction physical in the near future probably will not have the option of entering National Guard or Reserve six-month programs, which ordinarily require a wait of several months after enlisting...