Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, after a four-hour wait, the session was really over. Newsmen scrambled through the opened gates. up a short flight of stairs, and began a stampede into the conference room. A member of the U.S. delegation looked in horror at the horde of correspondents and hastily slammed the door, but there was no stopping them...
Shaw could be even more malicious to "the terrible Charlotte" herself. In an unsolicited bit of analysis, he once wrote her that she was "the lier-in-wait, the soul hypochondriac, always watching and dragging me into bondage, hating me and longing for me with the absorbing passion of the spider for the fly." There was neither close intellectual camaraderie nor sexual passion between them. But once they were married, Shaw grew to depend heavily on her protective, intelligent presence. A gifted hostess, Charlotte became as well an acute, sympathetic critic of her husband's work and even helped...
...sorry, Mr. Beyer, that particular book will be out until September, 1967 . . ." This was a disappointment, of course, but at least the experience had two good sides: first, I could at least have the fun, of ogling the buxom girl at the call desk during my wait for the book; second, she called me by my name...
...Valdex did not claim that the of the Negroes "fulfills Marxist as you allege--he remarked, this is close paraphrasing, "The Negro uprising in the U.S.A. may be the indication of deep social unrest generated among working classes in the due to economic stagnation. We wait a while longer...
Drenched Chefs. Once the hotels open, the bugs that develop during the shakedown period can reach plague proportions. Except for the top supervisory people, Hilton overseas hires locals almost exclusively. In Cairo it broke tradition by hiring women to wait on table. The girls were reluctant at first and flatly refused to wear frilly aprons because they are a symbol of service. Now the jobs are coveted not so much for the higher pay as for the chance to meet eligible men. In Athens a maid who was warned to be thorough in her cleaning dismantled a guest...