Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late. It was his destiny to die, or, as some say, to be carried off to Avilion, where he could wait for better days...
Five Brands. Even diagnosis is difficult, unless the doctor has reason to suspect botulism. "When we have a suspected case," said Dr. Charles S. Petty of the University of Maryland, "we must first get a specimen of the food, inject an extract of it into white mice, and wait up to four days for something to happen. By then, if the patient really had botulism, he may be dead...
...pays its school superintendent $22,000 a year, compared with the mayor's $15,000, and in Harvard-honed Charles E. Brown, 39, it has one of U.S. education's genuine whiz kids-a reformer who believes that schools them selves must launch curriculum ideas rather than wait for university brain-stormers. Newton is no passive receiver of new courses through the mail. It creates its own, the work of teachers who plunge into ceaseless meetings and study groups as soon as the kids go home in the afternoon...
...crowds began to gather at 7:30 a.m., huddling miserably under umbrellas. One man carried a little wicker stool to wait out the long hours. By 9 the line stretched a block long...
Since Shakespeare's only patron was the young Earl of Southampton-a delicately hued blond boy who for years was the despair of his family because he took no interest in girls-the sonnets might seem, to any reasonable man, to have been written to him. Ah, but wait. They are prefaced with a dedication signed T. T., addressed to W. H., "the only begetter of these poems...