Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what subjects they hoped to cover. Khrushchev greeted them at the door of the Oval Hall in the Kremlin, shook hands with each, and after much picture taking, cracked: "You think the Communists are in control here, but you see the photographers are in control." He did not wait long to tell the party that "capitalism is a dirty word" in Russia, but he spoke with a smiling, bantering kind of informality...
...G.I.s settled down for a long wait, setting up latrine screens off the road and eating hot meals brought in by MPs from nearby Helmstedt, Western statesmen weighed the implications of the blockade. After all, as Khrushchev remarked last week, "A soldier is not a foreign minister. He cannot enter into negotiations and he has to carry out his orders. That is the law for both our soldiers and yours." British and French officials agreed to stage a show of support for the U.S. by mounting convoys of their own to test the Russians. But the Russians waved the allied...
...town square, a Christian Democrat bigwig from Palermo announced to the crowds that the government would start building the dam in November 1964 and, if it proved impractical, promised that the money would be spent on other needed projects in the area. It seemed a long time to wait, but then waiting is a way of life in Roccamena...
...visible puffs which show that the hormone has told them to do their stuff. Dutifully they release their information by forming "messenger RNA" (ribonucleic acid) that diffuses into the body of the cell and manufactures the protein enzymes that bring about metamorphosis. Then the puffs disappear, and the chromosomes wait for other hormones to come along and tell them to release other items of information...
Last night Anochie took a wait-and-see attitude. "We can see what we can do if the University does reject our application. Our reaction to any moves or decisions by the Committee will be based purely on principles enunciated in our letters to the Committee as well as on the consideration of the efficiency of efforts to achieve our goals...