Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking press suggested that perhaps a few of the Sino-Soviet differences could be settled soon, while others could be deferred till later. This simply meant that the Chinese were ready to prolong the quarrel indefinitely. "If the differences cannot be resolved this year," said Peking blandly, "they can wait until next year." The Russians were less patient. They shot back an answering communiqué warning Peking that "the immediate future" will decide whether the split will widen. Then Moscow gave the Red Chinese-and the West-a pointed reminder. After all, said the Soviets, "we have a common enemy...
Some people mumbled "Gilbert and Sullivan" two years ago when Alan Jay Lerner and Richard Rodgers announced that they were forming a new partnership. But if new D'Oyly Cartes are quietly waiting to be launched, they will have to wait a long time. Rodgers' and Lerner's first musical - / Picked a Daisy - was postponed indefinitely...
Jane, after finding how helpful a slick "doctor" is willing to be for fifty pounds ("but not on a weekend, please"), decides she wants to keep her unborn child. She takes a room at Doris's boarding house--"an Israel for bugs" with no exodus--to wait out her pregnancy...
Moderator Theodore R. Sizer, assistant professor of Education, expressed the view that "if we are going to wait for tastes to be raised through the formal educational system, we're going to wait an awfully long time...
...prime function is still to grease East-West trade, which last year expanded 10% to $19 billion. When a British or other non-Communist company makes a sale to a Soviet-bloc customer, Narodny will pay the exporter at once, saving him the usual three-to six-month wait before collecting. For Narodny's services, the exporter pays a commission of 3% to 4% of the bill, so that the Soviets benefit doubly from the transaction...