Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been urging South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem to declare a general amnesty for Communist Viet Cong guerrillas in order to encourage wholesale desertions from the Red cause. Diem was in favor of the idea. But he always replied that as Abraham Lincoln waited two years after the beginning of the Civil War before issuing his Emancipation Proclamation, he, too, would wait for a propitious moment so that the move could not be interpreted as a desperate gesture by a sinking government to round up popular support. Last week, confident that the war against the Reds...
...ENGLAND. With all due respect to "the great English people," De Gaulle firmly insisted that "union" of Europe, meaning apparently the Gaullist proposal for closer ties between governments, cannot wait for Britain. "One day, perhaps," England will be admitted to Europe-after it has "detached itself from its ties with the Commonwealth...
...know that Soviet tanks are always ready to rumble into the city. As Laszlo Nemeth, a respected non-Communist author, puts it: "We Hungarians live today in a new apartment block which many people find ugly. It became clear in 1956 that the block cannot be demolished. While we wait behind the façade for its transformation into something better, let us at least make our own flats as habitable...
When Park finally caved in last week, agreeing to wait until September to decide whether to call for free elections or a vote on his referendum, civilian politicians were at first inclined to grumble at Park's compromise. But in fact, they needed that much time to organize their parties for an election campaign. The civilians knew who their most potent opponent would be: General Park himself, who no doubt would use the six-month postponement to build up a grass-roots political organization strong enough to help him switch from fatigues to flannels and take office...
Harvard didn't wait to get started. In the first inning Curly Combs walked and stole second, and Terry Bartolet got a base on balls. When Gymnast pitcher George Anderson tried to pick Bartolet off first, the ball went by the first baseman, and Combs raced in with Harvard's first run. Tom Stephenson singled in Bartolet, went to second on Gilmor's single, and scored while Lee Sargent was grounding...