Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador. Acting on talk-tough instructions telephoned to him by President Kennedy, Stevenson flayed Russia's Valerian Zorin. "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium-and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba?" he demanded. "Yes or no-don't wait for translation-yes or no?" When Zorin protested that he was not a defendant in an American court, Stevenson cut in: "You are in the court of world opinion right...
...will have your answer in due course," Zorin said. "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over," snapped Stevenson. For millions of Americans watching the performance on television, it was Stevenson at his best -a reasonable man who had finally lost patience with an outrageous opponent...
Andrus is proud of Minuteman and of his wing: "We have the highest degree of perfection and morale ever achieved in any military organization." Yet he is fully aware of the potentiality for boredom in sending highly trained men underground to sit and wait. All launch crew members hold B.S. degrees, work toward master's in aerospace engineering while on duty. "We don't anticipate that any of these men will crawl the walls," Andrus says...
...reported that the volcano had ruined most of their houses, killed all their sheep, and destroyed the fish-freezing plant where many earned their living. But there were still fish in the sea, enough land for their potato crop, and green grass for the cattle. The exiles could hardly wait to leave. For though they had found good jobs and a warm reception in "h'England," most islanders -who are descended from sailors shipwrecked on the island in the 19th century -just could not cope with progress. Said one: "When you don't want...
Such steps had to be taken because last year Japanese industry-carried away by Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's plan to double per capita income in a decade-launched into an orgy of expansion. Imports of heavy machinery became so great that ships had to wait as long as 30 days to unload, and Japan's trade deficit jumped to a record $1.5 billion. Determined to get the nation's balance of payments back on even keel, Ikeda raised interest rates, put curbs on imports, and mounted a drive to increase exports...