Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...segregation of Chicago is as bad as the de jure segregation of Birmingham. We're through with tokenism and gradualism and see-how-far-you've-comeism. We're through with we've-done-more-for-your-people-than-anyone-elseism. We can't wait any longer. Now is the time...
...Shelter. Then fate played a capricious hand. The South Col team had also reached the summit-at 3:30 p.m.-looked around for the West Ridgers, given up, and headed back to wait at the South Summit, 328 ft. below. Unaware of all this, Hornbein and Unsoeld wasted valuable time at the summit searching for Bishop and Jerstad. Not until 9 p.m. did the rendezvous take place. By now it was so dark that the four climbers could not find Camp 6 on the South Col route. Huddled against each other they spent the night at 28,000 ft.-without...
...Forbidden City, midnight pyrotechnics as the Imperial arsenal blows up, the gates of the great Tartar Wall being stormed by Boxers in scarlet turbans-are almost as good as the evocative paintings by Water-colorist Dong Kingman, which open and close the picture. It was doubtless ghastly to wait 55 days at Peking until a troop of international reinforcements arrived, and the moviegoer who goes through the whole siege in two hours and 30 minutes comes out feeling lucky...
...making all calls, wait for the dial tone, a steady humming sound, before starting to dial. Don't try to dial from memory. Keep an eye on the number being called in the directory or write it down where you can see it while dialing...
...gets him to climb the mountain "to grow up." Parents who prefer their kids to learn about life in a setting other than the widescreen Wyoming hills would do well to follow the lead of Mother Maureen O'Hara who says: "Come along, children. We'll wait for Daddy back in the truck...