Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats of the twenty-sixth Parliament, the prospects for a second consecutive minority government are all too imminent. The dangers of such minority rule were well exemplified by Prime Minister Diefenbaker's legislative program of the past year. The laissez-faire attitude of his Progressive Conservative Party--wait and things will take care of themselves--emphasized the necessity for a stable government and responsible leadership in the coming Parliament. Diefenbaker's unwillingness to face such pressing matters of national concern as the bicultural, nuclear, and budgetary questions has placed an unnecessary burden on the back of the next government...
Palate or Patrie? But world influence could wait, decided De Gaulle, and he said non as only he can. He dispatched a sort of force de flap - the fast, 2,750-ton destroyer escort Tartu-to watch over the fishing boats. An "act of hostility." cried Brazilian Foreign Minister Hermes Lima. "The attitude of France is inadmissible, and our government will not retreat. The lobster will not be caught...
...only time of the year when a middle-aged widower or a plain, bespectacled spinster can break out of the everyday litany of loneliness and-who knows? -find true love across a crowded beer hall. Of those who were still lonely as Fasching ended last week, many would not wait for next year's festivities; they will turn instead to one of West Germany's 200 marriage agencies, such as the booming "Institute for Elegant Individual Marriage Initiation." Chirped Bonn Marriage Broker Alice Paech on Ash Wednesday: "Now it will start all over again...
...plot is unimportant: an old guard (Walter Macken) and a young guard (Patrick McGoohan) wait tensely for a reprieve to arrive for the quare fellow (prison slang for a condemned man), and when it fails to arrive they lead him grimly to the gallows. What matters is the compelling illusion of life as it is lived in an average anachronistic prison: the natural humanity of the prisoners and their guards, the subhuman system that makes them beasts and keepers, the soul-destroying hatred of either for other, the teeth that glitter cruelly behind every smile, the moral stench of slowly...
...larger mysteries of the selection fiasco concerns the committee's haste to decide the top berths as compared to its willingness to wait another weekend before giving St. Lawrence and Providence its final blessing...