Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day he admitted that this was a stock beginning for all his readings but said, "The silence was not a trick. I had to establish the seriousness of the situation with the audience. I wait until I sense their readiness, until it is almost too much for them to stand...
Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, that pudgy and popular fellow, has been itching to get his hands on the top job in West Germany, and can hardly wait for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to retire as promised next fall. He has shyly nudged der Alte before, only to be rapped harshly on the knuckles. Last week Erhard puffed up his chest and tried again...
Last May, Yang traded his old-fashioned aluminum vaulting pole in for a more flexible fiber glass model. "I had to learn to wait, wait for that pole to snap." But Yang slowly got the hang. "On the U.C.L.A. practice field,'' he recalls, "we had to put blocks under the uprights to get them up to 16 ft. Every time I hit the crossbar, one upright would fall over and hit me on the head...
...bears and blueberrying, they feel, just won't do. Yet they are aware of another Frost, the Frost of that small, chilling masterpiece called Design, which offers a vision, in miniature, of active malevolence in the world. After finding a moth killed by a white spider lying in wait and masked by a white flower that usually is blue. Frost asks...
Although Pusey refused to set a deadline beyond which Harvard would begin building with or without the yards, he indicated that time was growing short. "We can't wait much longer," he said...