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Word: waits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line, however, one can expect to see them using a great variety of charges. Sometimes the wait at the line of scrimmage, trying to hold their position and "read" the play. Other times they charge and try to penetrate into the offensive backfield. They will occasionally use crosses and step-around maneuvers, and the linebackers do a lot of stunting...

Author: By Phil Billard, | Title: Bulldogs Depend on Belly Series, Sweeps | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

Kennedy, who often do not see eye to eye, firmly agreed on one thing:' until the Cuban crisis is removed, the solution of other international problems, in Berlin and elsewhere, would simply have to wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Back to a Boil? | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...from the 3.7% of a year ago. Consumer spending in general is giving strong, if unspectacular, support to the economy. Total retail trade, which leveled off in the late summer, hit a record $20.1 billion in October. Department-store executives from Manhattan to Los Angeles, who used to wait decently until after Thanksgiving before putting up the Christmas decorations and playing scratchy recorded carols, were shamelessly early this year, and report that holiday shopping is off to an unseasonably brisk start. With projections based on income, credit and savings statistics, Sears, Roebuck Vice President Arthur M. Wood expects that retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Newer Confidence | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...market, savings and loan societies have grown up in the past two years. Unlike those in the U.S., the Argentine S & Ls accept deposits only from prospective borrowers. Each depositor makes monthly payments of from $15 to $60 toward a future mortgage loan of up to $18,000, then waits an average of three years to get it, at 12% to 14% interest (current mortgage rates in the U.S.: about 6%). Since the wait is pretty discouraging, the societies have tried to help a few, and stir up the curiosity of all, by means of a lottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Win-a-Loan Lottery | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...dinner there last night, however, a petition asking a referendum on the subject received the required 25 signatures. The Committee meets informally Sunday evening, but will probably wait until a regular meeting Wednesday to organize the referendum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HCUA Seeks House Committee's Opinions On Interhouse Between Harvard, Radcliffe | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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