Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the loudest and most effective blast of all came from Boston University's Jack Kelley with no axe to grind. Pronouncing the "premature selection a severe mistake," Kelley indicated that the ratings would certainly have been different if the committee had bothered to wait for B.C. to finish its disastrous northern trip...
...Must Wait Two Weeks...
Members of the present Executive Committee have refused to commit themselves to any candidate, preferring to wait for the usually gruesome question period before making their weight felt
...18th and final hole. Player seemed to have it made. His putt was an easy four-footer. But his playing partner, Don January, had left a putt teetering precariously on the lip of the cup, and January said that he could see the ball moving. So he waited-for seven interminable minutes. Player was so unnerved that he blew his own 4-ft. putt, the match and a crack at the $5,300. "That putt wasn't going to drop-ever." he groused. "January had no right to wait so long...
...wait and formally negotiate a long range agreement with Britain might have forced Kennedy and McNamara to go through the same embarrassing and time-consuming performance that they had undergone the year before. The quickest course was to confront the British government with an unchangeable situation, let Macmillan work himself into a desperate frame of mind, and then present him with Polaris missiles, a gift he accepted with practically no delay...