Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long wait went on, there could still be no doubt that the U.S. Government, acting courageously and cannily, had forced Russia's Khrushchev to back away from his Cuban foray. But as the days went by, there was the feeling that the U.S. might also be letting great gains for freedom slip away...
...Ambassador." he told Zorin. "we do have the evidence!" He hammered at Soviet evasiveness and demanded an answer: "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? Yes or no-don't wait for the translation-yes or no?" The audience, transfixed by Stevenson's untypical aggressiveness and wrath, buzzed excitedly. There was some nervous laughter. Zorin, genuinely startled, smiled too. Then he replied lamely: "I am not in an American courtroom, and therefore I do not wish to answer. In due course...
Stevenson: "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over...
...victory, cannot afford any more time away from his family oil business. Firmly, but politely, the New York Yacht Club replied that it would deal with the British challenge two years from now, in 1964. "A bitter disappointment," said the Royal Thames Yacht Club, but the Britons agreed to wait until then to try their skill against the undefeated...
...pity for de Gaulle he didn't wait till after the referendum of last Sunday before dissolving Parliament and demanding the nation give him a less cantankerous and independent one--if such a thing can be imagined. For de Gaulle's relatively poor showing in the referendum may mean the coming election will turn out far more unpleasantly than, even on Saturday night, de Gaulle could have guessed. (Although de Gaulle received 61 per cent of the yes-no votes, the figure represented falls to 46 per cent when abstentions are counted--the first time he has fallen below...